We are currently in a silly situation when dealing with refillable products for home, and I was wondering if anyone else had any ideas.

If I wanted shower gel (for example), all the refillable locations require a bottle with the capacity printed on it, and for it to be empty. And basically I don’t want to wait until my shower gel is out completely before getting any more, so I would want an intermediate container however I cannot find a 1l bottle that has the capacity embossed on it so that I can take it to the refill station, and bring it home. I really don’t want to buy another small plastic bottle with the capacity on a paper label that does one refill of the gel, and would have to be replaced when the label comes off.

  • HumanPenguin@feddit.uk
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    2 months ago

    Yep and the bag used for the refill. Tend to have fine plastic coating. That just make placing microplastics into the environment faster. While being totally un reusable.

    Even when the price is lower. It’s just trying to reduce cost of packaging while greenwashing customers.

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      2 months ago

      Well the sell is that it uses less plastic in total than the original bottle. Still far too much for a one time use bag.