Downsizing laundry detergent containers to cut carbon emissions
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By ISABELLA O'MALLEY
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A growing number of companies are making bulky plastic jugs smaller and concentrating the detergent or soap.

Without all that water, less fossil fuels are required for transport, because the products are lighter and more can be shipped in a single trip. New detergent formulas are changing to become ultra-concentrated liquids or even solid sheets roughly the size of an iPhone.

“Laundry detergent can contain up to 90% water,” said Lisa Karandat, co-founder of Good JuJu, a company that sells sustainable laundry sheets and solid shampoo and conditioner bars, among other things. “Those big heavy jugs require a lot of space to truck around the country.”

In addition to lower carbon emissions from diesel-burning delivery trucks, some companies are responding to public demand to minimize plastic pollution.


https://apnews.com/article/climate-solut...b62caded9e
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i used plastic refill bags
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Why not have dispensing machines where you bring own container and refill at those machines?? Anyways you visit the shops to purchase stuff rite? Just place the dispensing machines at the groceries lor...
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(23-03-2023, 12:51 PM)Sticw Wrote:  Why not have dispensing machines where you bring own container and refill at those machines?? Anyways you visit the shops to purchase stuff rite? Just place the dispensing machines at the groceries lor...

This will cut down on the plastic pollution.  But still need to make the detergent more concentrated so that the carbon emissions of delivering the detergent to the dispensing machines are reduced.
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