For businesses, 10:10 shopping month is all about tackling emissions from procurement and supply chains, and I've recently come across a small shop that's put this at the heart of its business model.

Many, if not most, retail products are overpackaged, and this is becoming a serious problem. Excess packaging not only places a burden on councils and consumers; its manufacture and disposal produces about 10m tonnes of CO₂ each year.

Unpackaged in London encourages customers to bring their own long-life packaging and containers for storing food and other environmentally friendly household items. By cutting out packaging from their suppliers and encouraging customers to use reuseable packaging they reduce the carbon footprint of the whole supply chain – supplier, retailer and customer.       

To find out more, have a look at a nice video that Reuters made here, or pop by for some of their delicious sea salt fudge.