Plastic has become one of the most harmful materials to our environment.
From polluting oceans and harming wildlife, to filling up landfills for decades without decomposing, this material is having devastating short term and long term effects on our planet.
The main culprits are the companies producing these products. Plastic is cheap, economical, and easy to mould, so it’s no wonder its use is so rampant.
We at Veg In A Box only use plastic packaging for certain goods purely for convenience. But that’s no excuse! It’s time to go the extra mile, so in the next few weeks we will be attempting to make the conversion to be completely plastic free!
We’ve already started by switching our old carrier bags to new 100% biodegradable bags!
We have to do our part and start looking after this place we call home 🙂
As you know, here at Veg In A Box we know our pies… and we NEVER settle for second best. Clive’s pies are so good that now we pretty much have every product the produce in stock! Clive started making vegetarian wholemeal pies in 1982, from a small domestic kitchen on the edge of Dartmoor. …
I still can’t believe it… What a night! We are so so proud and thankful to have won our second Devon Life Award, Independent Retailer Of The Year! It’s an amazing feeling to be acknowledged for the endless hours of hard work and we thank everybody from the bottom of our hearts for voting for …
New in the shop this week are some fantastic items from local South West baker Hotch Potch! Endorsed by Mary Berry, these guys produce some incredible gluten free goodies and recently won Metro’s award for best gluten free pie! Beating big names like Pieminister, Clive’s and Genius! These items have to be tried to …
We’ve had a couple customers ask us why we’ve wrapped some items in bags. It’s completely understandable and a perfectly reasonable question, usually all of our fruit and veg is completely free of any packaging. But given whats going on in the world at the moment there’s obviously is a reason for this. With the …
Completely Plastic Free
Plastic has become one of the most harmful materials to our environment.
From polluting oceans and harming wildlife, to filling up landfills for decades without decomposing, this material is having devastating short term and long term effects on our planet.
The main culprits are the companies producing these products. Plastic is cheap, economical, and easy to mould, so it’s no wonder its use is so rampant.
We at Veg In A Box only use plastic packaging for certain goods purely for convenience. But that’s no excuse! It’s time to go the extra mile, so in the next few weeks we will be attempting to make the conversion to be completely plastic free!
We’ve already started by switching our old carrier bags to new 100% biodegradable bags!
We have to do our part and start looking after this place we call home 🙂
Julie
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