What makes Västerbottenssåpa sustainable?

THE IMPORTANCE OF USING CIRCULAR RAW MATERIAL

In a circular economy, things are used for as long as possible.
When they break, they are repaired, turned into something else, or recycled.

 

 

COMPARISON OF VIRGIN RAW MATERIAL

In the example below, you first see a comparison of producing one kilogram of palm oil and one kilogram of rapeseed oil. As you can see, palm oil has 10 kg of CO2 per kilogram, while rapeseed oil has 2 kg of CO2 per kilogram, but most of the CO2 emissions from both oils come from the cultivation itself—that is, from obtaining the raw material. Thus, the raw material we choose matters, but both oils have the majority of their CO2 emissions from production.

 

 

Västerbottenssåpa is a circular product. It is made from rapeseed oil that has already been used once, purified, and saponified into soap. This means we do not use any new oil raw material for our soap; instead, we reuse rapeseed oil that has already been produced. Consequently, no virgin fat raw material is produced for our sake, and we have therefore excluded that part from the soap diagram. The other emissions required during production are included under saponification and packaging.

 

 

Soap production also causes emissions, although they are very small. We use electricity, transportation, and packaging as sustainably and climate-smartly as we can.
We are constantly working to reduce our footprint. For example, we have replaced some of our bottles with POP-prevented ocean plastic, plastic collected from beaches to prevent it from ending up in the oceans. We are working to replace all plastic with POP.

 

The calculations were made with the help of: sustainability.alpla.com,
carboncloud.com, miljofordon.se, climatehero.me, postnord.se. We work
continually updating figures and making more accurate calculations.
We continuously work to update the calculations to make them as accurate as possible. 

We would also like to thank Inlandets teknikpark and Heligfjäll Ekosystems hållbarhetskonsult för Cirkulära affärsmodeller for reviewing our calculations. 

 

Västerbottenssåpa  - environmentally friendly cleaning products

 

Västerbottenssåpa is made in Vilhelmina, Sweden, from recycled rapeseed oil, based on a basic recipe from 1926. It harms neither you nor nature and recycles used oil from selected restaurants—oil that would otherwise have ended up as waste.

 

• By using our natural and easily biodegradable soap, you reduce the amount of harmful chemicals in your home.

 

• By reusing the spray bottle and refilling it with our small refill sachets, you reduce plastic consumption.

 

• 45% of all global emissions come from the way humans produce new raw materials. By choosing Västerbottenssåpa, which is a reused product, you contribute to the transition to a circular economy and reduced emissions. Thank you for being part of the climate transition. 

 

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Questions and answers

1. Why is circularity important at all?
Answer: 45% of all emissions come from the way humans produce new raw materials.

 

2. Aren't transport emissions the biggest "culprit"? 
Answer: No, producing raw materials accounts for a much larger share of emissions.

 

3. Isn't pine oil also a circular product?
Answer: No, it is a by-product of producing new paper raw material.

 

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