Farmer’s Market Spotlight: Kimberly Flores of fulFILLed

Kimbery Flores, founder of fulFILLed. Photo: Ashley Brown

FulFILLed is a mobile refill shop that offers an alternative to single-use packaging. Customers provide or buy containers to refills with soaps, detergents, hygiene products, and household cleaners. FulFILLed also has creative solutions for reducing paper and hygiene products, like bamboo dental floss, re-usable and washable “paper towels,” bamboo toothbrushes, and bamboo cleaning brushes. Kimberly Flores launched fulFILLed in response to the world’s waste problem perpetuated by single-use containers. Before launching fulFILLed, she worked as a journalist at ABC News.

Kimberly describes the inspiration behind launching fulFILLed, “In my job as a journalist, I got to focus on my passion which is environmental stories. I really thought at the time I was a good steward of the environment. Then in 2018, when China closed its ports, we realized that we had a waste problem, and our recycling system was broken. That’s when I started living a more zero waste lifestyle. I wanted to do something to give back to my community. We don’t have anything like this here in the Wasatch back. We don’t have a zero-waste shop. I was having trouble finding personal care products and household cleaning products that don’t come in plastic. I figured if I was having trouble finding those things, other people were too.”

Park City Farmer’s Market customers can bring their clean and dry refillable containers to the market. In October, when the market closes down for the season, fulFILLed offers home delivery.

Kimberly explains why she loves selling her sustainable product at the Park City Farmer’s Market, “The people are great. A lot of this is about education, so people come to my booth, and we talk about lifestyle and the environmental impact of waste-free or low-waste living. We talk about clean products, what people have in their homes currently, and what they’d like to do to make the switch towards low waste living.”