The Old Schoolroom Craft Gallery
Gift Shop also selling hot/cold drinks and snacks to drink in or takeaway
Owner: Louise Thompson
Actions to date:
Only paper bags used for gifts and takeaways
Using up a small amount of disposable plastic cups, from then on all takeaway cups will be Vegware (china cups for drink-in)
Discount offered for customers who bring their own reusable cup
Free drinking water refills available + on the 'Refill Devon Scheme'.
No straws
Soft drinks are mainly in cans. Bottled water and juice is in clear plastic bottles but a recycling box is provided in front of the shop for recycling bottles.
Recycles plastic, cardboard, glass where possible from shop.
Working on:
Using up last stock of plastic disposable cups
Would consider alternative snacks with non-plastic packaging in future
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“It’s very important to make these changes and stop using plastics as it never goes away. I see plastics washed up on the beach a lot and pick it up. Using paper bags and paper packaging are easy things to switch, we just have to change our habits and aim to be plastic free.”