Zero Waste Markets & Refill Shops, State by State

Updated by Sarah Currie-Halpern

It's time to update you on Zero Waste Markets and Refill Shops across the country. These small businesses give consumers the opportunity to make conscious, sustainable purchasing decisions for their household. During the Covid-19 pandemic, the landscape of zero waste shops changed, with many closing their doors this made space for new entrants, and many new zero waste and refill businesses have opened up since.

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. The selection and mode of selling varies widely as well, many of these shops sell food, while others sell cleaning supplies, gifts and beauty supplies. Some offer in-store shopping only, while others sell online only, and still others have a hybrid format of in-store and online sales.

Products are often 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

SustainLA Los Angeles

Simple San Francisco

COLORADO

Nude Foods Market Boulder and Denver

JoyFill Denver

The Zero Market Aurora & Edgewater

FLORIDA

Verde Market Miami and Ft. Lauderdale

HAWAII

Keep It Simple Honolulu

IDAHO

Zero Waste Market Garden City

ILLINOIS

Zefiro 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

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

Precycle NYC Brooklyn

Package Free Shop Brooklyn

NORTH CAROLINA

Ekologicall Charlotte

Fill-More Burnsville

Good Earth Essentials Charlotte

PENNSYLVANIA

FD Market Emmaus

Good Buy Supply Philadelphia

Shop Wildfire Altoona

Refillery Oakmont

SOUTH DAKOTA

Rewild Essentials Rapid City

TEXAS

Earthen Market San Antonio

Usefull Dallas

VIRGINIA

Go Less Than Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Hampton

Refill Renew Staunton

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

WASHINGTON, D.C. AREA

Full Fillery Takoma Park, MD

ONLINE ONLY AND OTHER

Better Footprints

Loop Diaper Service

Note: Last updated August 2024; if you are a zero waste, refill shop and would like to be added to this list, please reach out to info@thinkzero.com.