A Canadian company, Planet People has developed a line of non-toxic cleaning products that, to reduce packaging and carbon footprint from shipping, do not come with water. The IQClean line of cleaning products comes with a bottle and a cartridge of plant based cleaning fluid. Users of the product simply fill the IQClean bottles with tap water and the cleaning liquid from the cartridge is added in. When the cartridge is empty, instead of buying a new bottle from the company, customers just by a new cartridge, saving on plastic production and shipping.
The company claims that through savings on fuel from shipping and petroleum products used in the manufacturing of plastic, they have reduced the carbon footprint of cleaning products by 70% compared to conventional cleaning products.
Other suppliers and manufacturers have realized that not shipping water in a wide variety of household products allows significant reductions in packaging and shipping costs as well as the products overall carbon footprint.
Many companies are realizing that the premise of shipping water does not make sense economically or environmentally. Wal-mart, Proctor & Gamble and Unilever have all had programs to concentrate products so that consumers can add water from a local source at the time of use,.
This trend provides more evidence that using local and sustainable water for all your needs, is just plain smart.
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