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Laundry cleaning supplies1/10/2024 In March, Amazon launched an in-house product line called Clean Revolution. It’s only sold online, or else I would absolutely get that to carry home instead of the standard 100-ounce detergent bottle. The bottle automatically doses the right amount of detergent with one squeeze. In 2018, Seventh Generation introduced an “ultra-concentrated” laundry detergent, which the company says uses 50 percent less water and 60 percent less plastic and is 75 percent lighter than the standard detergent bottle. Truman’s, which also launched in February, says shopping for cleaning products is too confusing and onerous, offering as an alternative four concentrated cleaning products for glass, floors, bathrooms, and all-purpose, shipped in small recyclable plastic refill cartridges that fit in the neck of its reusable plastic spray bottles. It’s all in the design scheme du jour: gender-neutral, with minimalist font swimming in pastel color schemes. The startup makes a “forever” refillable container for its mouthwash tablets, packages its shampoo bars in paper boxes, and provides refills for its deodorant. By Humankind (emphasis theirs) launched in February. You’ve probably heard this, but there’s a lot of plastic swirling around in our oceans, and in developing countries, single-serve product sachets are a scourge on the rivers and beaches.Īlmost all at once, waterless products have arrived to save the day. Only 5 percent of plastic produced globally is ever recycled, a number that has likely dropped since China stopped accepting our recyclables in 2017. The time is ripe for a low-plastic, just-add-water revolution. An estimated 20 percent or more of global disposable plastic packaging by weight could be replaced by reusable packaging if we only shipped active ingredients. And it reduces the plastic packaging by requiring a smaller container to hold the refillable concentrate, or by precluding the need for any disposable plastic at all. It reduces their weight, thus further reducing fuel and carbon emissions associated with shipping them. Drying out these cleaning and personal care products does several environmentally friendly things: It reduces their volume, thus reducing the number of boats and trucks needed to transport them. More than 90 percent of a typical bottle of cleaning product is simply waterĪccording to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, more than 90 percent of a typical bottle of cleaning product is simply water.
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