Tray supermarket in Vienna, Virginia, near Washington, has everything a shopper needs except containers.
位于弗吉尼亚州维也纳,靠近华盛顿的 Tray 超市提供顾客所需的一切,唯独没有容器。
That's right.
没错。
No bags, no boxes, no bottles.
没有袋子、盒子或瓶子。
If you want to bring something home, even liquids like cooking oil or shampoo, you need to come prepared.
如果你想带东西回家,包括像食用油或洗发水这样的液体,你需要做好准备。
Visitors bring their own containers and weigh them.
顾客带上自己的容器并称重。
Fill up what they need and then buy their goods by weight.
I got the idea to open the store, gosh, it's like twenty-eighteen.
So how many years? Almost six years ago.
I got tired of seeing so much garbage and plastic and trash, like single use coffee cups, like single use packaging and I knew that less and less was going to be recycled.
Open Trace in twenty-twenty-one, she says, according to Greenpeace data, only six percent of plastic waste in the US is recycled, and she hopes stores like hers can make a difference.