Tante Emma Unverpackt

Tante Emma Unverpackt will be a bulk store, that will be a little different. In german, a "Tante-Emma-Laden" (literally "Aunt-Emma-store") refers to a corner store or a village grocery store of old. The idiom is used with a nostalgic undercurrent and with a little bit of a sneer at the same time, however always with a humorous tone. "Unverpacked" means unwrapped or unpackaged .
Bulk Shops pursue two goals: to actually reduce concrete plastic consumption, and secondly to bring about a rethink and a change in behavior towards the use of plastic and waste in general.
This is very good and a first step. But how much time do we have to convince the mainstream about its necessity? To avoid the danger of staying in the niche, Tante Emma Unverpackt will put a strong emphasis on the principle "zero waste" and offer products that you can actually afford, for one. And products that have the capacity (in tastefulness and functionality) to actually compete with the ingeniously practical mainstream-products of the conventional industry. If the products are too pricy and odd, the whole idea of reducing plastic is undermined. The stores will stay a niche for a subculture, which is fine by itself, but the remaining ninety-nine percent of society continues to buy products wrapped in plastic. Therefore, if the zero-waste movement is serious, it must do everything it can to become the mainstream itself.

We realize this concept by abandoning the conventional plastic bulk bin system and using (more expensive) glass dispensers instead.
Plastic is thus consistently banned from our inventory and delivery to the store. We strive to combine progressive ideas and old values, symbolically (design and aesthetics) and de facto (product selection and delivery principles), in order to address a broad client base.

Tante Emma Unverpackt will significantly reduce plastic waste in Neuruppin and regionally. Secondly, Tante Emma Unverpackt will contribute to a change in society's attitude towards the consumption of plastics. Moreover, it is the explicit aim of Tante Emma Unverpackt to convince potential customers with a special and selected aesthetic and to win them over in the long term. For example: if we can convince a customer to wash his hair in the future with solid shampoos instead of liquid shampoo in plastic packaging, this results in an annual saving of approx. 10 shampoo packs per person.

We need to make some changes to our consumer habits. We can only do this by taking action and setting up projects like Tante Emma Unverpackt. Bulk Bin Shops tackle the problem of plastic waste at its roots, because the incentive to produce plastic at all is taken away in principle. Tante Emma Unverpackt is a special Bulk Bin and zero waste shop that stands out due to its high-quality products and a well thought-out and creative concept. With your donation, you'll help to create the first unpackaged shop in Northern Brandenburg!

With the first funding objective of the financing, the foundation of Tante Emma Unverpackt with the small café is realised.
This financing is used specifically for the dispenser systems and the cash register system.
The second funding objective is the complete furnishing and the first goods for Tante Emma Unverpackt.