That's the drill at the Green grocery store on Salt Spring Island, which was Canada's first zero-waste grocery store. "I woke up at 4 a.m. and I thought, what if you could go to a grocery store and there was no plastic?" Lehky says walking into her small grocery store is quite a unique experience. Crystal Lehky is the owner of the zero-waste Green grocery store on Salt Spring. The idea of a zero-waste store does seem to be gaining traction as Vancouver had a pop-up version last spring.

Source: CBC News January 31, 2017 23:01 UTC