in.gredients Plans Nation's First No-Waste Grocery Store

Urban Patchwork Farm Plot (courtesy of in.gredients)

Every day, packaging makes up more than one-third of the 700,000 tons of garbage placed in American landfills. This summer, an Austin grocery store aims to rethink the packaging part of the equation. in.gredients will open on the corner of Manor Road and Walnut Avenue in East Austin as the first package-free and zero waste grocery store in the United States.

While most of us are familiar with the slogan “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle,” in.gredients founders the Lane brothers (Joseph, Christian and Patrick), Chris Pepe and Brian Nunnery, felt that precycling was the way to go. Precycling is the practice avoiding items that will generate waste in the first place, and it is much more energy efficient than recycling.

Read the rest of the article in the Austin Post.