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Are Refillable Products The Future?

Are Refillable Products The Future?

Is the future refillable?

When we look at the history of plastics, it’s disheartening to realize that only 9% of all plastics ever created have been recycled. Another 12% has been incinerated; a whopping  79%, then, has accumulated in landfills and nature.

That’s right: your Bonnie Bell Lip Smacker tube circa 1995 is quite likely still somewhere on this planet.

Refillable products (like ice cream in stainless steel jars and shampoo bottles refilled in-store) aren’t new. But while most people say they want eco-friendly product options, their purchasing behaviors sing a different tune. Consumers tend to prioritize convenience over eco-friendliness, time and time again.

Today I speak with Izzy Zero Waste Beauty founder Shannon Goldberg about closed loop consumption. Is packaging the problem, or does the problem lie within our consumption?

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[6:00] 2 major barriers to mainstream refillables

[11:00] Do refillable products *actually* make a dent in our trash production? What about our oversized environmental woes?

[15:00] Refillable products and next-level greenwashing: Why we must expand our collective definition of waste to account for excess carbo emissions from sending back our products

[20:00] Are refillable options sanitary in a post-COVID world?

 

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Refillable products (like ice cream in stainless steel jars and shampoo bottles refilled in-store) aren't new, but they're gaining traction as *the* solution to plastic waste. On this episode of the Sustainable Minimalists podcast: Is packaging the problem, or does the problem lie within our consumption?

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