Superb Idea: Household Cleaning Products in Re-used Plastic Bottles
- Posted by: Zach Frechette
- on April 21, 2009 at 10:00 am
Duh. From the New Soap, Old Bottle web site: “We sell brand new liquid soap packaged in old plastic soda bottles, plastic water bottles and glass beer bottles to help clean up our environment. Each bottle is cleaned, sanitized and processed for reuse as packaging for your favorite brand of liquid soap. Big companies aren’t going to do this on their own. So, we’ll do it for them. We buy name brand liquid soap by the barrel and package it in old bottles here in America.” The cherry on top is that in addition to selling name-brand cleaners like Windex and SoftSoap, the site allows you to order environmentally friendly alternatives. You can also set up a recurring order so you (or your business, or school) never run out. Hopefully they’ll start stocking this at Target or Wal-Mart sometime soon.
Via Josh Spear.
DISCUSSION: 7 Comments
great post
This is a great step, but I’m still waiting on soap/detergent to be sold via soda fountain-like dispensers. Then I can bring my empty 409/Windex/whatever bottles back to the store and refill them myself. Why do I need to buy new (or even recycled) bottles every time, when I can keep reusing the ones I already have?
Woopig- I’ve been wondering when someone might do that too. How about a coin-op dispenser?
There is already another system out there that does this in the store: http://restoreproducts.com/It’s not coin-op, but they have a refill station where you bring your bottle back, it reads the barcode on the bottle, refills it, and prints a coupon to take to checkout for $1 off on the refill. This video shows it in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_KqzyqOuAYIt’s just a matter of time until the big cleaning product companies take notice. There’s no way that in 5-10 years we’ll be driving to the store to buy a new bottle and throw it away every time.
This story reminds me of a company called Terracycle that sells organic liquid fertilizer in reused soda bottles. It’s good to see that more and more people are jumping on the bandwagon. Maybe one day we will be buying our soda in reused soda bottles.http://www.terracycle.net/
More on Terracycle here: http://www.good.is/post/black_gold/
Just saw a special on Terracycle on the Planet Green channel…awesome.