Our team at Think Zero LLC is ecstatic to share the growing numbers of zero waste, refill shops opening across the country. These small businesses are giving consumers the opportunity to make conscious, sustainable purchasing decisions for their household.
What does it mean to be a “zero waste” or “refill” shop? In a nutshell, these shops stock products with minimal to no packaging, and allow customers to bring their own clean bags, jars, bottles, and other reusable containers to package the products to bring home. If a customer does not bring their own reusable container, stores usually have reusables on hand for purchase or ones that are donated from the community. Some of these stores pack their goods ahead of time in reusable containers meant to be returned to them and often charge a small fee for each container.
Products are priced by weight (containers are usually tared, when a customer weighs the container when it’s empty, so they only pay for the weight of the product they are purchasing). Refill shop products’ prices can be comparable or competitive to traditional stores depending on the product and the area where you live. We recommend visiting a zero waste, refill shop near you and have compiled a mini-resource guide by state!
CALIFORNIA
Refillery LA Los Angeles
Zero Grocery San Francisco & Los Angeles
COLORADO
Nude Foods Market Boulder
The Balanced Exchange Denver
The Conscious Merchant Denver
JoyFill Denver
The Zero Market Aurora & Edgewater
FLORIDA
Shop Joyfull Riverside & Jacksonville
Zero Orlando Orlando
Zuke’s Refillery Delray Beach
HAWAII
Aloha Sustainables Pahoa
Zero Waste Hale Maui
IDAHO
By the Pound North Idaho
Roots Zero Waste Market Boise
ILLINOIS
Eco & the Flamingo Chicago
LOUISIANA
Vintage Green Review New Orleans
MASSACHUSETTS
Green Road Refill Cape Cod
MICHIGAN
Bee Joyful Shop, Kalamazoo and Dexter
BYOC Co. Ann Arbor
Fill Michigan Midland
Refillery TC, Traverse City
Refill U.P., Houghton
Walking Lightly, LLC Ferndale
MISSOURI
The Refill Effect Kirkwood
NEW JERSEY
Good Bottle Refill Shop Montclair
Sustainable Haus Summit
Unwrapped Asbury Park
NEW YORK
Earth & Me Queens
EcoBronx LLC Bronx
La Nature Store Brooklyn
Precycle NYC Brooklyn
NORTH CAROLINA
Ekologicall Charlotte
Fill-More Burnsville
Good Earth Essentials Charlotte
PENNSYLVANIA
FD Market Emmaus
Good Buy Supply Philadelphia
Shop Wildfire Altoona
SOUTH DAKOTA
Hippie Haven Shop Rapid City
TEXAS
Earthen Market San Antonio
Luxe Refill Austin
Usefull Dallas
VERMONT
Chandler’s Dry Goods Burlington
VIRGINIA
Go Less Than Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Hampton
Refill Renew Staunton
Tare Refill Shop Harrisonburg
WASHINGTON
A Drop in the Ocean Tacoma
Green Life Trading Co. Madison
Kindred Homestead Supply Vancouver
Living Pantry Blaine
Pumped Bellingham Bellingham
Soap Refillery Tacoma
Spokane Refillery, Spokane
ONLINE
Note: Last updated December 2021; if you are a zero waste, refill shop and would like to be added to this list, please reach out to info@thinkzero.com.