Green e-commerce startup Sustainably Stocked is using its home city of Halifax to dial in its marketing and logistics strategies with the goal of later expanding to other Canadian cities.
Co-founders Dessie Maliaka and Adam Olsen sell kitchen staples like almonds, salt and sugar in reusable glass or compostable paper containers to reduce plastic waste.
Maliaka said in an interview that, growing up in South Africa, she saw firsthand the harmful effects of plastic pollution. Olsen, meanwhile, was shocked by the amount of plastic garbage he saw on beaches during a trip to East Asia. When the