Man Creates A Way To Reduce Plastic Packaging And 25 Famous Companies Join Him
As record high and low temperatures are being recorded all over the globe and unrecycled plastic waste continues to pile up in the middle in the ocean, almost forming and entire plastic continent in itself, it’s pretty obvious that time’s up and action is needed as soon as possible. Recycling waste on the same scale as we have been doing until now seems to be a solution that is not effective enough. There’s a need for a radical change in the way we consume and deal with our waste and this man, Tom Szaky, an author, CEO and an eco-revolutionary, is here with an idea that could change everything. – The Loop Project.
The old days of a milk man delivering fresh milk and then recollecting empty bottles again can return, but this time in a way more life-changing way
Tom Szaky, entrepreneur, author and an ecological warrior, recently came up with a game-changing idea
Image credits: Tom Szaky
Tired of the impossibility of avoiding plastic waste while using certain necessary products
He came up with an idea on how to make reusable and refillable packaging the new norm by presenting the Loop project
Image credits: loopstore_us
Loop will work in a way that can be summed up with: “shop and enjoy, then we pick up and refill”, just like with milk in the old days
Firstly, the goods that customers ordered online will be presented to their doorstep in a reusable Loop Tote bag
And once the items are used up, you just place the empty packaging back in the same Loop bag and request a free pick up so they could collect it, clean it and refill it with the same product
Here’s a simplified scheme of the whole groundbreaking novelty
Among 25 brands that have joined the project are Evian, Oral-B, Clorox, Gillette, Dove and others
The project will kick off in May 2019 with only 5,000 customers in Paris and New York City to test the idea
London, Tokyo, San Francisco and further expansion is planned in the future
If the whole initiative proves to be successful, more brands will be included in the catalog, which means more reusable packaging used by more people
Loop’s aim is to eliminate the idea of waste and if successful, this is going to one giant leap for humanity into a waste-free future
Image credits: PepsiCo
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Share on FacebookI remember when juice, soda, and milk were sold in glass bottles, it all tasted better and you could return the bottles to be reused. I also remember when the bag inside the cereal box was similar to wax paper, not plastic, and you could buy chips and cookies in tins, which we then saved to put homemade Christmas cookies in.
In Poland you can buy (in big stores) cookies and sweets by weight. They still use plastic bags for it but at least it isn't as much plastic as the "normal" packaging nowadays.
Load More Replies...Unfortunately (like air and water and plastic pollution), the places that pollute the most will be the last to adopt, if ever).
Load More Replies...Not sure if the emissions increase caused by the increase of single-product deliveries is offset by the reduction in waste...
I don't use any of these products because they're testing on animals. Even if they get rid of plastic they're just evil a**e lickers who make s**t product full of harmful chemicals so it's cheap to make and gives them a huge profit.
I absolutely refuse to use anything tested on animals. I'll go without makeup and use natural products before I'll have an animal suffer because I wanted 'longer lashes'. I wish people felt this way about EVERY living creature that is not able to give consent.
Load More Replies...Way back, we used to have a "Pop Shop" store in town - you chose your pop(soda) in glass bottles and when you were done you returned the empties for full ones. I think it's a great idea - somewhere we chose convenience over everything else and lost our way...
I miss having pop in glass bottles. Back in the 80s there we used to have the Alpine pop man that would deliver pop to your door and collect the empty used bottles, just like the milk man. It's a shame these services died out :(
Load More Replies...The first thing that popped into my mind, unless they are picking them up on Bicycles they are probably burning more fossil fuels in the vehicles than they are saving by recycling the containers.
Have to limit the number of pickups - like not more than once a week (or less, depending). Again - ppl would have to order 2 at a time so they don't run out, since various products are used at different rates. Not doing this would double or triple the amount of pickups needed.
Load More Replies...Oh yess! That could be a solution for pollution. I would buy it.
I am in LOVE with this guy - Best idea EVER!!! There is no 'away' in throwing stuff away - it sits in the earth and ruins it - this is GREAT! I have hoped for a solution to the packaging issue - I want to invest in Loop too!
Now, if P&G, Nestlé & Co only improved their other company policies as well (patenting of plants and animals, animal testing, stealing water from poor people and selling it back to them very expensively, "slave labour", exploiting people, animals, the planet, ...), then maybe this would be something to be really happy about.
We have a milk machine next to a grocery. Today I made a short video about it. Yes, I made tiny mistakes there. But that's my fault. Zero waste and no plastic lifestyle is really easy here, I can cook and eat almost everything what we like. The only exception is sushi. The seaweed we can't buy without plastic. Also my gulity pleasure, chips is still creates unnecessary waste. But our packaging waste still fits to a normal jar/month. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0N2aEjmDAA
So will the savings in plastic make up for the extra fuels & pollution used to pick up the empties? It sounds like a good ideas but I just don't know if there is any way to figure that out. Glass was great, but it's also heavy to transport, meaning more fuel.
Using the fuel is not going to cause as much harm as the giant plastic continent growing in the ocean does. Nothing is perfect, but at least this guy is trying to make a difference.
Load More Replies..."Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic" for the WIN! Seriously, though, I love this idea and would be happy to use it if I could afford it.
There is a store near me that sells milk in glass bottles that you pay a deposit on and return for them to clean and refill. I grew up collecting glass soda bottles to get the deposit on them to buy more soda or candy. I think that all companies should return to this.
if something's not broke, why try to fix it? returning soda bottles & milk jugs were a way of life & it worked fine. "convenience" has turned our nation into too many landfills. i'd definitely be for stuff like this!
Glass bottles weigh a lot more than plastic ones. And people in general are lazy.
Load More Replies...I love the comment about the deck chairs on the Titanic! It may be cynical but it sure is smart! Haha
I’m all for this. Yay reusable packaging, but all my plastic goes into the recycling anyways. Is that as good?
will the extra transportation costs and pollution negate the benefits?
yeah, I would love this idea to be available in grocery/drug stores - just go in get your packaging refilled and save on transportation cost.
Orange juice? I make mine from real oranges! These Trump-coloured liquids tastes like battery acid, and a bad one.
It's so tiresome that people like you come along with your hateful political rhetoric while we're having a nice discussion. You're not even American, why do you care?
Load More Replies...Just gotta order 2 at a time so that when you don't run out of everything at the same time, you can always have a full one on hand. This will also minimize the number of pickups needed, as you can wait until you need refills of everything at once (since you have backups).
Plus, if enough people participate, then lots of deliveries can be made in the same areas at the same time making it much more efficient. We already have FedEx, UPS, USPS and Amazon coming around most neighborhoods almost every day. There's no reason this company can't use one of those companies (except perhaps USPS because we do actually want to receive our items) to deliver the products along with everything else they're delivering.
Load More Replies...Berlin, Germany? How about visiting https://original-unverpackt.de/ ?
Load More Replies...It's a great idea, but I feel like so many people are going to abuse this.
Abuse in what way? I'm assuming the cost of pick up is included in the initial cost of the product.
Load More Replies...We NEED this to simply become an everyday, usual way of life. Now. Please let's have this rolled out on a global scale as fast as possible
I don't now if they do food or drink. If they do, I would be much more likely to do the Loop if most everything came in glass to begin with. I've done about everything I could feasibly do to avoid buying food products in plastic, but everyone else just blindly went ahead and bought them when all brands started switching over the last 15 or so years. It's gross. Plastic is not inert like glass is. What chemicals are soaking into our food from all that plastic?
Up until around 2006, I used to buy 24 case of beer in the returnable bottles at the one place left around that still did it. Came in a cool cardboard box with fliptop lids. Eash to carry, easy to open. When you went to buy more , you just brought it back with you. That's how my parents always bought beer almost all their lives. In 2006, it was about 8.99 plus tax for 24. Now it's 15.00 for 12 and they don't take my old bottles away.
This is great in concept, but the question remains, what is the cost? I am finding more and more that companies coming up with or joining in on these ideas are out of budget for the vast majority of families. If the idea cannot serve the majority, I am not sure that the impact will be long-lived. Trying not to be a skeptic, but this seems like another capitalistic opportunity to make someone rich.
i love this idea. i went to the app store and could not find an app for this? Is there not a Mobil version yet. Come on guys lets get this going. Its a great idea lets get this into peoples hands! i want to join!
In cocept this is a great idea, however, the question I always have to ask is; will this be available to all, meaning affordable. The problem I consistently find with brands that claim to be responsible(non of the ones listed here) they are not affordable to the masses. This will continue to be a problem if these items are not affordable for the ever growing number of struggling families.
Hmm.... I like the idea, but won't the increased transportation be a detriment to the environment?? You should just be able to bring the container back to the store and refill it there.
Eliminate the following and we are 90% there: Disposable water bottles Product packaging Straws and lids Cups plastic wrap/bags for food grocery bags Those alone are 90% of the plastic we throw away after one use.
Great idea! Except that I don't use any of these brands (I'm trying to eliminate unhealthy chemicals from my life). I am trying to reduce the amount of single-use plastic in my life, but it's hard to do when even the healthy alternative companies use plastic. And I doubt this Loop company would contract with the small companies whose products I love and believe in. It also frustrates me that the grocery delivery services I use (because of health problems, shopping at a large store is very difficult), force me to use one-use plastic bags. They need to figure out a way to allow delivery customers to utilise reusable cloth bags.
Great! :) But: "groundbreaking novelty"? Really? I mean... This has been normal in Germany for... like: forever?! At least for milk, yoghurt, water, and juice. Also, many other arcticles can be bought in re-usable packaging or at least packed (mainly) in cardboard boxes...
I'm all for it! Seems like a great idea. In the '80's limonade, beer, water,... was all in glass bottles anyway, so I like the idea. Now I hope it won't come with crazy mark up prizes that is only for the rich folks to be able to afford and as for the transportation, well they can use electric transport as well!
Electric autos don't cause pollution, but producing electricity does. Those electric cars still have to be charged and they don't go very far on a single charge, especially loaded down with packages. Power plants use heat to boil water and produce steam to spin the turbines that produce electric power. To produce heat, most power plants burn gas, oil, coal or organic materials (biomass) which obviously produce carbon pollution. If you want a green thermal source, you can look at nuclear plants where nuclear reaction is used to boil the water. But then you have the nuclear waste to dispose of eventually. Let's just focus on lowering the plastic use first, then we can sort the transport later.
Load More Replies...The problem with this is that for them to pick up they will use GAS and contribute carbon monoxide pollution (and again for delivery) They will have to Clean the reusable container Contribute Water Waste, Detergent/ Cleaning product/ Chemical Pollution
If you live in or near any American city, you'll notice that FedEx, USPS, UPS and now Amazon trucks are in most neighborhoods every day anyway. This company would be using one of those delivery services so it wouldn't make more of an impact as far as fuel but would make a huge impact in reducing plastic.
Load More Replies...It's about time! I will sign up for this as soon as it's available in Canada I absolutely love this and want to support a better future for the planet and future generations to come.
This would me very impactful to get everyone to be progressive in low waste lifestyles. COOOOOLLLL
Yes! Plastic milk bottles have about 100 plastic bags worth of plastic. The plastic bags have been almost banned in NZ. Yet....
Some stores (like urban outfitters) use cloth bags instead of plastic or (idk what its called) but a mall in Dallas doesn't give you bags unless you pay extra for them, they're like 10 cents but yeah
I play guitar and if I ever break a pick I make it into a necklace and sell them instead of throwing them away (I mention it's broken before anyone buys it)
Load More Replies...Wow this is such a great idea. This would be great for our oceans. I like turtles
Bring that to CAnada! That is AWESOME...I love real tins and throw out hte plastic immediately with my milk and put it in a nice glass one in the fridge. Tastes SO much better!
Well you're part of the problem then. Why are you throwing plastic out when you know it's causing so many problems? You could recycle it like the rest of us do. Or find ways to reuse it around the house and community. Just those two simple things, if done by everyone, would make a huge impact.
Load More Replies...It will be used for ten years. That's the point.
Load More Replies...I remember when juice, soda, and milk were sold in glass bottles, it all tasted better and you could return the bottles to be reused. I also remember when the bag inside the cereal box was similar to wax paper, not plastic, and you could buy chips and cookies in tins, which we then saved to put homemade Christmas cookies in.
In Poland you can buy (in big stores) cookies and sweets by weight. They still use plastic bags for it but at least it isn't as much plastic as the "normal" packaging nowadays.
Load More Replies...Unfortunately (like air and water and plastic pollution), the places that pollute the most will be the last to adopt, if ever).
Load More Replies...Not sure if the emissions increase caused by the increase of single-product deliveries is offset by the reduction in waste...
I don't use any of these products because they're testing on animals. Even if they get rid of plastic they're just evil a**e lickers who make s**t product full of harmful chemicals so it's cheap to make and gives them a huge profit.
I absolutely refuse to use anything tested on animals. I'll go without makeup and use natural products before I'll have an animal suffer because I wanted 'longer lashes'. I wish people felt this way about EVERY living creature that is not able to give consent.
Load More Replies...Way back, we used to have a "Pop Shop" store in town - you chose your pop(soda) in glass bottles and when you were done you returned the empties for full ones. I think it's a great idea - somewhere we chose convenience over everything else and lost our way...
I miss having pop in glass bottles. Back in the 80s there we used to have the Alpine pop man that would deliver pop to your door and collect the empty used bottles, just like the milk man. It's a shame these services died out :(
Load More Replies...The first thing that popped into my mind, unless they are picking them up on Bicycles they are probably burning more fossil fuels in the vehicles than they are saving by recycling the containers.
Have to limit the number of pickups - like not more than once a week (or less, depending). Again - ppl would have to order 2 at a time so they don't run out, since various products are used at different rates. Not doing this would double or triple the amount of pickups needed.
Load More Replies...Oh yess! That could be a solution for pollution. I would buy it.
I am in LOVE with this guy - Best idea EVER!!! There is no 'away' in throwing stuff away - it sits in the earth and ruins it - this is GREAT! I have hoped for a solution to the packaging issue - I want to invest in Loop too!
Now, if P&G, Nestlé & Co only improved their other company policies as well (patenting of plants and animals, animal testing, stealing water from poor people and selling it back to them very expensively, "slave labour", exploiting people, animals, the planet, ...), then maybe this would be something to be really happy about.
We have a milk machine next to a grocery. Today I made a short video about it. Yes, I made tiny mistakes there. But that's my fault. Zero waste and no plastic lifestyle is really easy here, I can cook and eat almost everything what we like. The only exception is sushi. The seaweed we can't buy without plastic. Also my gulity pleasure, chips is still creates unnecessary waste. But our packaging waste still fits to a normal jar/month. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0N2aEjmDAA
So will the savings in plastic make up for the extra fuels & pollution used to pick up the empties? It sounds like a good ideas but I just don't know if there is any way to figure that out. Glass was great, but it's also heavy to transport, meaning more fuel.
Using the fuel is not going to cause as much harm as the giant plastic continent growing in the ocean does. Nothing is perfect, but at least this guy is trying to make a difference.
Load More Replies..."Rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic" for the WIN! Seriously, though, I love this idea and would be happy to use it if I could afford it.
There is a store near me that sells milk in glass bottles that you pay a deposit on and return for them to clean and refill. I grew up collecting glass soda bottles to get the deposit on them to buy more soda or candy. I think that all companies should return to this.
if something's not broke, why try to fix it? returning soda bottles & milk jugs were a way of life & it worked fine. "convenience" has turned our nation into too many landfills. i'd definitely be for stuff like this!
Glass bottles weigh a lot more than plastic ones. And people in general are lazy.
Load More Replies...I love the comment about the deck chairs on the Titanic! It may be cynical but it sure is smart! Haha
I’m all for this. Yay reusable packaging, but all my plastic goes into the recycling anyways. Is that as good?
will the extra transportation costs and pollution negate the benefits?
yeah, I would love this idea to be available in grocery/drug stores - just go in get your packaging refilled and save on transportation cost.
Orange juice? I make mine from real oranges! These Trump-coloured liquids tastes like battery acid, and a bad one.
It's so tiresome that people like you come along with your hateful political rhetoric while we're having a nice discussion. You're not even American, why do you care?
Load More Replies...Just gotta order 2 at a time so that when you don't run out of everything at the same time, you can always have a full one on hand. This will also minimize the number of pickups needed, as you can wait until you need refills of everything at once (since you have backups).
Plus, if enough people participate, then lots of deliveries can be made in the same areas at the same time making it much more efficient. We already have FedEx, UPS, USPS and Amazon coming around most neighborhoods almost every day. There's no reason this company can't use one of those companies (except perhaps USPS because we do actually want to receive our items) to deliver the products along with everything else they're delivering.
Load More Replies...Berlin, Germany? How about visiting https://original-unverpackt.de/ ?
Load More Replies...It's a great idea, but I feel like so many people are going to abuse this.
Abuse in what way? I'm assuming the cost of pick up is included in the initial cost of the product.
Load More Replies...We NEED this to simply become an everyday, usual way of life. Now. Please let's have this rolled out on a global scale as fast as possible
I don't now if they do food or drink. If they do, I would be much more likely to do the Loop if most everything came in glass to begin with. I've done about everything I could feasibly do to avoid buying food products in plastic, but everyone else just blindly went ahead and bought them when all brands started switching over the last 15 or so years. It's gross. Plastic is not inert like glass is. What chemicals are soaking into our food from all that plastic?
Up until around 2006, I used to buy 24 case of beer in the returnable bottles at the one place left around that still did it. Came in a cool cardboard box with fliptop lids. Eash to carry, easy to open. When you went to buy more , you just brought it back with you. That's how my parents always bought beer almost all their lives. In 2006, it was about 8.99 plus tax for 24. Now it's 15.00 for 12 and they don't take my old bottles away.
This is great in concept, but the question remains, what is the cost? I am finding more and more that companies coming up with or joining in on these ideas are out of budget for the vast majority of families. If the idea cannot serve the majority, I am not sure that the impact will be long-lived. Trying not to be a skeptic, but this seems like another capitalistic opportunity to make someone rich.
i love this idea. i went to the app store and could not find an app for this? Is there not a Mobil version yet. Come on guys lets get this going. Its a great idea lets get this into peoples hands! i want to join!
In cocept this is a great idea, however, the question I always have to ask is; will this be available to all, meaning affordable. The problem I consistently find with brands that claim to be responsible(non of the ones listed here) they are not affordable to the masses. This will continue to be a problem if these items are not affordable for the ever growing number of struggling families.
Hmm.... I like the idea, but won't the increased transportation be a detriment to the environment?? You should just be able to bring the container back to the store and refill it there.
Eliminate the following and we are 90% there: Disposable water bottles Product packaging Straws and lids Cups plastic wrap/bags for food grocery bags Those alone are 90% of the plastic we throw away after one use.
Great idea! Except that I don't use any of these brands (I'm trying to eliminate unhealthy chemicals from my life). I am trying to reduce the amount of single-use plastic in my life, but it's hard to do when even the healthy alternative companies use plastic. And I doubt this Loop company would contract with the small companies whose products I love and believe in. It also frustrates me that the grocery delivery services I use (because of health problems, shopping at a large store is very difficult), force me to use one-use plastic bags. They need to figure out a way to allow delivery customers to utilise reusable cloth bags.
Great! :) But: "groundbreaking novelty"? Really? I mean... This has been normal in Germany for... like: forever?! At least for milk, yoghurt, water, and juice. Also, many other arcticles can be bought in re-usable packaging or at least packed (mainly) in cardboard boxes...
I'm all for it! Seems like a great idea. In the '80's limonade, beer, water,... was all in glass bottles anyway, so I like the idea. Now I hope it won't come with crazy mark up prizes that is only for the rich folks to be able to afford and as for the transportation, well they can use electric transport as well!
Electric autos don't cause pollution, but producing electricity does. Those electric cars still have to be charged and they don't go very far on a single charge, especially loaded down with packages. Power plants use heat to boil water and produce steam to spin the turbines that produce electric power. To produce heat, most power plants burn gas, oil, coal or organic materials (biomass) which obviously produce carbon pollution. If you want a green thermal source, you can look at nuclear plants where nuclear reaction is used to boil the water. But then you have the nuclear waste to dispose of eventually. Let's just focus on lowering the plastic use first, then we can sort the transport later.
Load More Replies...The problem with this is that for them to pick up they will use GAS and contribute carbon monoxide pollution (and again for delivery) They will have to Clean the reusable container Contribute Water Waste, Detergent/ Cleaning product/ Chemical Pollution
If you live in or near any American city, you'll notice that FedEx, USPS, UPS and now Amazon trucks are in most neighborhoods every day anyway. This company would be using one of those delivery services so it wouldn't make more of an impact as far as fuel but would make a huge impact in reducing plastic.
Load More Replies...It's about time! I will sign up for this as soon as it's available in Canada I absolutely love this and want to support a better future for the planet and future generations to come.
This would me very impactful to get everyone to be progressive in low waste lifestyles. COOOOOLLLL
Yes! Plastic milk bottles have about 100 plastic bags worth of plastic. The plastic bags have been almost banned in NZ. Yet....
Some stores (like urban outfitters) use cloth bags instead of plastic or (idk what its called) but a mall in Dallas doesn't give you bags unless you pay extra for them, they're like 10 cents but yeah
I play guitar and if I ever break a pick I make it into a necklace and sell them instead of throwing them away (I mention it's broken before anyone buys it)
Load More Replies...Wow this is such a great idea. This would be great for our oceans. I like turtles
Bring that to CAnada! That is AWESOME...I love real tins and throw out hte plastic immediately with my milk and put it in a nice glass one in the fridge. Tastes SO much better!
Well you're part of the problem then. Why are you throwing plastic out when you know it's causing so many problems? You could recycle it like the rest of us do. Or find ways to reuse it around the house and community. Just those two simple things, if done by everyone, would make a huge impact.
Load More Replies...It will be used for ten years. That's the point.
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