NO-BAG LADIES: FIRST WRAPPING-FREE SUPERMARKET OPENS IN THE KIEZ

With each of us producing some 250 kg of plastic wrapping rubbish a year, it might sound like a good idea to stop. But how do you do this if almost every single grocery shop and every supermarket in town – including the organic ones – offers its products pre-packed and pre-wrapped in plastic?

For someone who grew up in the 1980s Eastern Europe, where practically every shop looked like an environmentally-conscious Bio-Laden with goods offered in big boxes, barrels or crates to be filled into own bags and baskets, it might not be hard to envision a solution: you do just that. But Sara Wolf and Milena Glimbowski, the women behind the new Berlin-Kreuzberg packaging-free supermarket Original Unverpackt (Originally Unpacked), could tell you long stories about trying to start trading with wrapping-free goods and often hitting another plastic wall.

After the massive crowd-funding success which brought them well over…