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by lkuty 2024 days ago
You're right, I guess I used the wrong word... "bulk". I wanted to say that we should buy food which has no container and as such no plastic container. Not that we should buy them in large quantities, if it's what has been implied by my use of the word.

Anyway, someone thought I should be thanked with another -1. Can we go to -Infinity ?

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Yeah, it's confusing terminology, because "buying in bulk" usually means buying large quantities, but the "bulk bins" of e.g. nuts at the grocery store really means "buy as much as you want."

But when the tomatoes are loose, we don't call that bulk.

Anyway, we can just say "without packaging."