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WHERE ARE WE ? 12 – 14 The Arcade Letchworth Garden City Hertfordshire SG6 3ET AND 6 High Street Biggleswade Bedfordshire SG18 0JA 07525177199 orders@bambooturtle.co.uk OPENING HOURS FOR LETCHWORTH OPENING HOURS FOR BIGGLESWADE For Bank Holiday weekends please see our […]
This list will change as and when we run out of stock or we add extra s to it. If you re desperate for something and not sure if it s in stock please contact us : BEANS & GRAINS Couscous Giant couscous Bulgar wheat […]
WHAT IS CLICK AND COLLECT Any of our items that are online can be ordered and collected at the shop in Letchworth and Biggleswade. during the Lock Down it is now possible to collect from Seasons Kitchen on the Market square in Biggleswade – they […]
Step 1 . You BRING your own containers – dont worry we will have spares if you feel an impromptu mung bean order is necessary.
Step 2. You then WEIGH your containers – You write the weight on container.
Step 3. You decide on what fabulous bounty you want to buy and FILL your containers – the FUN part.
Step 4. We then weigh your products – subtract the original weight and you PAY the difference.
To enable a STRESS free & fun shopping experience – we do all the maths for you.
What can you use as a container ? Literally anything from home. We ve seen cereal boxes or takeaway boxes or celebrations tins. The more plastic the better – it means that the plastics from home are being reused and not ending up in landfill or in our food chain.
As long as it s clean and can be closed it will work.
We also stock compostable, reusable, recyclable brown bags for you to use.
Or why not try our Click and Collect service if you re pushed for time.
12 - 14 The Arcade Letchworth Herts SG6 3ET And Now at 6 High Street Biggleswade SG18 0JA
Introducing the First Zero Waste shop in Herts – and now in Beds too.
The idea of Bamboo Turtle was born, primarily out of frustration at not being able to successfully shop waste free. Unfortunately, supermarkets provide a convenient but wasteful way of shopping. Every pasta packet, toothpaste tube and plastic wrapped broccoli adds to the mountains of waste that enter our recycling plants at best, or our oceans at worst, taking hundreds of years to breakdown and enter our food systems. And then we have food waste. Sometimes all we need is a handful of oats or a teaspoon of herbs and spices. Shopping at Bamboo Turtle allows you to buy exactly the amount of food you need in your own package.
So how does it work; any clean container will do paper, glass, tin, fabric, plastic (yep plastic, if it’s already in the home then reuse it until it falls apart. It doesn’t make sense to throw it out when it still has a use – or to buy a new container.
Then it’s a simple process of ‘bring, weigh, fill and pay’. The empty container is weighed, it’s then filled with any number of goodies that we sell ranging from pastas, dried fruits, flour, sugars and more and then we reweigh it at the paying till where you pay only for what is in your container. By helping yourself and using our gravity dispensers and ski boots you are in complete control of what and how much you buy. Simple.
We stock bathroom and kitchen supplies as well: toilet rolls, shampoos, conditioners, make up removing face pads, bamboo straws, soaps and many more items.
Hopefully we’ve offered a plastic free alternative to most items that would normally be over packaged.
“They were so good, deliciously fat and chewy and they held together well- don’t skimp on the flax (or you can use ground chia). The date sugar gave a lovely caramel flavour and a slight crispness, you could use another unrefined granulated sugar – why […]
“These are soft breakfast cookies- basically oatmeal in a cookie form quite literally, perfect for on the run for those already back to work or for impromptu trips or visits to family. I find these freeze well too.” Jo
Time saving tip: Bake a few days in advance, freeze, then defrost for an hour or so on Christmas morning just enough to slice neatly and then arrange the individual slices on a baking sheet and ‘double bake’ for super crispy edges and to heat […]
