About Us

What does plastic free mean in Just Gaia?

In Just Gaia we believe you can get high quality products that are of excellent quality, can be purchased just as conveniently as you do now, but without the single use plastic.

This means that any product you purchase from Just Gaia will not involve any single use plastics as you purchase them. 

It’s as simple as that.

Where plastic is used in some products in Just Gaia it is never single use or is dealt with as by us. The way we see it, it’s down to us, as responsible business owners to ensure we use as little plastic as possible and where we have to, reuse it or ensure it is fully recycled.

This is not something that we will pass on to you as our customer.

What happens to the plastic we use?

Many suppliers of Just Gaia use plastics while providing our stock. We have spent a lot of time during our setup to ensure we stock from local suppliers as much as possible. With many of them from Halifax, Huddersfield and in the wider Yorkshire region.

This means that where plastic is used, we simply send it back for the supplier to refil and use again such as the tea from Craft Tea, Coffee from Bean Bros. and others.

Where possible we are having conversations with suppliers too about how to eradicate the need for plastic in our regular deliveries. If nothing else can be done we will ensure anything remaining is completely recycled.

Just Gaia & The Piece Hall

It’s one thing to have a vision of a plastic free shop, it’s another to find where to open. Fortunately, we live in Halifax, home to some amazing locations. 

Number 1 on our list was The Piece Hall, a stunningly renovated 18th Century cloth hall. One with a passion for local businesses in the retail units, and the community here in Halifax and Calderdale.

Once we could do so, we applied and found a beautiful space for us on the Rustic section of the North Wall inside The Piece Hall which we now call home.

We continue to feel honored and humbled to have Just Gaia, our family run business, accepted into The Piece Hall family.