Single-Use Plastic? Not Here: A big marketing fact that will probably go unnoticed by the world is that goodsugar, with just one store, pioneered the removal of all single-use plastic from our retail environment. This was no easy task. Our founder and team had enough experience from the last big health food chain (we forgot the name of it) to know that the conscious customer was done with organic juice in plastic bottles. It made no sense.
So we pulled the plug: all glass bottles, metal lids, wood utensils, cloth and paper bags, and straws made from… well, definitely not plastic. Because here’s the truth, single-use anything is a waste and a pollution mentality. The customer wants cheap and fast, the retailer wants margins tight, and guess who suffers? The planet, and eventually us. Unless, of course, you enjoy long walks on the beach staring at cigar tips, tampon applicators, and plastic bags floating in the tide.
Single-use plastic is the first frontier in controlling garbage, resource waste, and maybe even a slice of climate change. And who the F wants plastic in their bloodstream? Not us. Plastics are everywhere, except at goodsugar.
Single-Use Plastic: Not Our Game: Single-use is wasteful, destructive, and impossible to ignore. You see it on city streets, highways, beaches, and in your own recycling bin, plastic piling up, choking the planet.
At goodsugar, we serve healthy, delicious food in glass mason jars and kraft paper containers. Bring your jar and lid back, get $0.50 off your next purchase. Spend $100 with us, get $7 credit. Return your jars, it’s good karma.
We get why plastic took over: it’s cheap, light, and easy for retailers. But the “easy” option comes at a cost, fragile ecosystems, overflowing landfills, and microplastics in our bodies. We chose harder, heavier, pricier alternatives because they’re better, for the planet, for you, for all of us.
The First NYC Food Retailer to Eliminate Single-Use Plastic: We’re proud to say goodsugar is the first New York food retailer to eliminate single-use plastic from our packaging. It wasn’t easy. We prototyped an operation that bet on consumers agreeing with this change, and you did. Thank you.
The truth is, there’s no perfect packaging solution yet. It’s about choosing the lesser evil. Single-use anything is flawed, wasteful, and ultimately destructive. Glass, metal, kraft paper, they’re heavier, pricier, and less convenient, but they’re honest. They don’t choke oceans, poison animals, or end up in your bloodstream.
Breaking free from single-use plastic is hard. People resist change because it feels inconvenient. But let’s be clear: we’re not against all plastics. Your glasses, containers, or durable gear have their place. We’re talking about the nonsense, the plastic used once and tossed forever. That’s the addiction we’re breaking.
This isn’t just about goodsugar. It’s about consumer demand. If you push your favorite retailers to ditch plastic, they will. Change is already happening, and together we can speed it up. Vote with your dollars. Reject single-use plastic and companies will have no choice but to innovate.
We admit it: we were once big polluters too. We know the health food industry hides behind greenwashed labels while pumping out trash. Now we’re on a path to redemption. Our commitment is reusable glass jars and bottles, metal caps, compostable straws, and kraft paper everything.
Is this inconvenient? Sure. But so is climate change. So is swimming at a beach littered with tampon applicators and plastic bags. So is microplastic in your blood.
The solution starts small. Carry a reusable bag. Return your jars. Say no to straws. Single-use plastic is the first frontier in controlling garbage and resource waste. Starting here is like cutting processed food out of your diet—it changes everything.
We’ve made a mess of things. It’s time to stop.
Why We Ditched Single-Use Plastic: Think of it like cutting processed food from your diet, one small change with a massive impact. By eliminating single-use plastic, every purchase becomes a step toward healing the planet.
The math doesn’t add up: the energy and emissions required to manufacture plastic for one brief use versus the centuries of damage it leaves behind. A glass mason jar can live in your home for years, while a plastic cup pollutes oceans long after we’re gone.
And let’s be real, microplastics are everywhere. They’re in our oceans, our rainwater, our food supply, and eventually our bodies. Do we really want traces of plastic in our bloodstream? Not us.
It’s time to act with compassion for the planet and all its creatures. Single-use plastic had its run. Now it’s our turn to choose differently, together.