Be Fresh Local Market, a sustainability-focused market and café, is addressing food insecurity in Vancouver neighborhoods head on by launching their Pay-It Forward program. VANCOUVER, BC, July 17, 2020 –Be Fresh’s Pay-It Forward program, launched today, will allow customers to donate the equivalent of a drink, snack, meal, or dinner for…
As our community collectively works towards reducing waste, many Vancouverites are experiencing a rise in the distribution of reusable bags over single-use ones by the stores they shop with. While we at Be Fresh love this movement away from…
On June 4th, SPUD was awarded a Silver Canadian Leadership Award by the PAC Packaging Consortium, in the category of “Sustainable Process/Facility” for our Reusable Takeout Container pilot program. This is the second award this program has won- the first…
In our oceans right now there are 500 times more pieces of plastic than there are stars in our galaxy (1). We find plastic pollution all around us and yet very little is known about its effects on the…
If I told you that you could save enough water to provide four years of fresh drinking water to Canadians and save about 3 billion lbs of greenhouse gas emissions from warming up our planet every year only by replacing…
The future of food packaging has arrived, and we are proud to offer it both online and in select Be Fresh retail stores! We're talking of course about Luumi, a true BC innovator on a mission to unplastic the world.…
Yep, you heard that right. Be Fresh is getting rid of plastic straws - forever. Since Vancouver plans to be the first major Canadian city to ban plastic straws entirely, why not get a head start? With over 57 million…
Yes, that’s right. Be Fresh is a B Corp, people - this is a big deal! But being a B Corp is only important if you know what it means. (Just kidding, it’s important either way, but you should still…