Sustainability comes from how we manufacture the products, to how we package them and finally how we ship them.
Through circular systems our climate impact is reduced. Since we have passed the limit for biogeochemical flows, it is important that we do everything we can to not make things worse, but to try to improve. That is why we decided to make cleaning more environmentally friendly and develop cleaning products and tools that do not harm you or nature and that do not move us closer to a planetary boundary.
The products
The product is manufactured from used cooking oil collected from selected local restaurants. It is mostly rapeseed oil or corn/rapeseed blend, but never palm oil or animal fat. The oil that is purified and saponified then forms the basis of all our soaps. It is a good way to recycle a product that would otherwise be thrown away and that now gets a new life.
Packaging
The packaging for the soaps is recyclable and made of an environmentally friendly PET, due to covid the supply of recycled bottles has temporarily decreased. The refill bottles are made of POP, Prevented Ocean Plastic, recycled plastic picked up from beaches around the world. The plastic is collected within a radius of 50 km from the coast or waterways that flow into the sea. The POP program prevents over 1,000 tonnes of plastic from reaching the sea every month and offers high-quality, robust recycled plastic. The packaging in which the orders are shipped is also recycled.
The first time you buy the starter kit, you get the spray bottles with the refills, but after you have bought them, you can just buy the refills and reuse the spray bottles to reduce the use of plastic
Shipping
The shipping is done by Postnord who are also very active in reducing their ecological footprint, they say that it involves a great responsibility to be a large company and that is why they want to help improve and develop the logistics industry for sustainable fuels and innovative delivery solutions.
They have goals listed on their website that they want to achieve. Such as reducing carbon dioxide emissions, continuing to electrify the vehicle fleet, replacing diesel with renewable fuel for heavy trucks and so on.
Written by Marieke, internship by Sneek, Netherlands and Malgomajskolan Vilhelmina.