We need to pollute less and yet ! - eviltoast

We need to wrap this plastic bottle in a plastic bag !

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    8 months ago

    What solution would you suggest if there’s shipping damage to contain the leaking cleaning fluid so it doesn’t damage any nearby objects?

    • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
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      8 months ago

      I don’t see any easy solution from the manufacturer.

      As a consumer though, you can buy refill bottles that are less likely to leak and be damaged during shipping, and contain enough liquid to refill the spray bottle more than once, reducing the amount of waste.

      Even better would be for local stores to have larger refill containers on shelves so that you can refill them yourselves without generating waste.

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        8 months ago

        Well they could stop selling ready made product where they can charge for water weight. Instead sell empty high quality, multi use spray bottles and powdered / dry detergents and cleaning agents. Of course that’s less profitable, but the solution would be obvious.

        An eco friendly store near me (in Germany) sells just that, including little paper satchels with pressed dish soap tablets. You just put them in the dispenser bottle, add water, shake and stir a bit and wait 30 minutes. Then you have liquid dish soap.

        Edit: I intended to reply to the parent comment, sorry for parroting much of what you already said lol

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          Ah yes, let the public handle concentrated chemicals, that’s not gonna end badly…

          There’s plenty of factors of why this isn’t done more frequently, lots of these mixes need to blended correctly, or the concentration is off. Theres downsides to making it dissolve and mix easier, they can’t control the ratios and therefore quality. If you mix it too low and it doesn’t clean, you’ll be complaining and returning it, even though it’s not on them.

          So it’s can actually be cheaper and saves a bunch of lawsuits and returns that cost time and money.

          Wouldn’t be surprised if there’s laws that limit the ability of this being done, for safety and liability reasons. The general public should really not be giving more responsibility to handle concentrated chemicals…

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            8 months ago

            For substances unsuitable to handle by the average person when undiluted, deliver them in large tanks to grocery stores etc. And have people refill reusable bottles and containers there. Less trash, potentially cheaper for the customer too.

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              8 months ago

              For substances unsuitable to handle by the average person when undiluted,

              So basically everything? Most cleaning chemicals are already dangerous, now they are going to be more concentrated. Theres dangers in mixing, so now the store should have an employee to mix it, this can solve the return issue as well, but comes with its own issues.

              Training, ppe, space to store hundreds of Chemical totes. Building codes and local bylaws probably have something to say about concentrated chemicals being that close to residential areas.

              What if the crack and mix in the store? In those concentrations and amounts, that’s mustard gas that’ll take out the town.

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                8 months ago

                Well I’m no chemist but yes? If necessary. It is a very efficient concept with no downside except being slightly more inconvenient.

                Though I would guess at least a few kinds of products would be safe to sell undiluted. Dish soap, soap in general, detergent is already sold as powder, dishwasher tabs and powder exists, probably a good part of cosmetics as well.

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                    8 months ago

                    Well you said it costs more and needs safe handling at the store. Potentially a safety hazard. Why is it a safety risk to ship bulk containers of the exact same thing we are shipping to stores now in small individual packaging? No mixing or diluting for the dangerous stuff, just bulk transport and sale. The mixing and diluting is only for things safe to be done by people at home, like the mentioned soaps.

        • m-p{3}@lemmy.ca
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          8 months ago

          No worries!

          An eco friendly store near me (in Germany) sells just that, including little paper satchels with pressed dish soap tablets

          That’s interesting!

        • The Giant Korean@lemmy.world
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          8 months ago

          Several companies do this for hand soap and other things, significantly cutting down on plastic, so it seems like this should work.

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            Yep I’ve used a couple and I don’t love some of them. I actually went back to bar soap for this reason.

            I do think that taking the liquid out of the equation and shipping a solid is the solution though

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      8 months ago

      Surely if a paper straw is meant to contain liquid then we can just wrap it in a big paper bag… I guess not. Gimme plastic straws.

      This is a bit of plastic, it has a useful purpose. Let it be. Not every piece of plastic is bad. Not every oil consumable is bad. It’s the excess that is bad. Using a very thin and light wrapping to contain the bottle seems like a very reasonable use. And it can probably be recycled and end up as packaging material next

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      8 months ago

      What solution would you suggest if the plastic wrapping breaks leaking the leaked cleaning fluid?

      I doubt the plastic is going to hold up against whatever broke the bottle in the first place.

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      8 months ago

      Less rushing and more maintenance on shipping equipment?

      Why not wrap the whole box instead of each and every little bottle?

      Why not make better container etc…

      We don’t need all that plastic.

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        8 months ago

        Most damage comes from humans

        That’s more plastic and allows the other items inside to get damaged.

        Thicker and more plastic in the bottle, great idea. Just move it elsewhere.