In November 2016, as a sleep-deprived new mother, Tash Gost (main image) scrolled through her phone and captured her newborn son “falling down the rabbit hole of reading about plastic pollution.”
Fast forward to July 2019, and she opened Gather, an organic, zero-waste store on Peckham’s trendy Berendon Road. The mustard-yellow storefront sits between the dim sum restaurant and the hair salon, where customers come to fill their bins with everything from …