One easy way to make a real environmental impact across your home? Replace single-use plastics with refillable systems. Not only do refillables reduce product waste, but they also help streamline your routine, save you money, and drastically cut down the amount of plastic entering landfills and waterways. Roughly 460 million metric tons (!) of plastic are produced annually.[1] However, only about 9% of this plastic waste is recycled globally.[2] A significant portion of this plastic production is dedicated to single-use packaging, which quickly degrades into microplastics, aka tiny plastic particles that enter our air, water, and even our bodies.[3]
Refillable systems are one of the easiest ways to break the cycle. By choosing durable, reusable containers, you use less plastic, create less product waste, and build a more sustainable home and planet.
Here’s a room-to-room guide to making the refillable switch.