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There is a company called Loop that is shipping and re-using packaging. Much of it is aluminum. (Personally I'm looking forward to laundry detergent not coming
by ryanianian 7y ago
There is a company called Loop that is shipping and re-using packaging. Much of it is aluminum. (Personally I'm looking forward to laundry detergent not coming in an extremely thick single-use plastic thing I know will end up in a landfill.)
Glass is very heavy relative to other materials so you've got to include the added shipping weight into CO2 calculations. Glass makes a lot of sense for things you don't buy very often where the ratio of product-use-count vs weight is high (condiments, cleaning products, personal-hygiene, etc).
- jessaustin 7y agoI always buy detergent in a cardboard box? That's probably not great either...
- 59EFCD18 7y agoThat box is coated to make it water-resistant. Technically they can be separated and the paper half recycled, but almost no municipality does it.
- jessaustin 7y agoI'm talking about the powder detergent. (Liquid detergent inherently wastes resources hauling water around. I already have water.) The inside of the box is just cardboard. The outside is printed with some sort of glossy image, but I don't see how it's qualitatively different than a cereal box...