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Title: | Toothpaste tablets and syrup on tap: US refill shops cut the container |
Date: | 3/25/2023 |
Summary: | In the meantime, though, Rini Saha - the co-owner of the FullFillery, another Washington-area refill shop in the suburb of Takoma Park, Maryland - hopes to make a difference from the ground up. "We want you to reuse as much as we can, because recycling is still a huge carbon footprint," the 46-year-old told AFP. Saha and colleagues make a number of body care and cleaning products on-site, for refill or purchase in a returnable container. On a recent Wednesday morning, fellow co-owner Emoke Gaidosch, a chemist by training, poured liquid soap she had made into a large receptacle. Aside from the lack of packaging, Miller says bulk sales could yield even bigger environmental benefits by helping consumers buy only what they need. That, ultimately, can help eliminate the impacts from a product's entire lifecycle, from the energy and resources used to create it, to things like methane released when unused organic waste decays in landfalls. Over three years of existence, the FullFillery has mo |
Organization: | PHYS.ORG - Earth |
Date Added: | 3/26/2023 6:39:40 AM |
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