I’ve contacted several of the bottles suppliers many of us smaller toiletry business owners know about, to request they get in this new line of high end, gorgeous 100% Post Consumer Recycled heavy walled PET Plastic bottles, that are FDA approved and are easily as stunning as Virgin PET packaging (no sacrifice in quality here).
Well, I’m sorry to report that so far the ones I’ve gotten responses from are ho’ing and humming and dragging their feet and either won’t do it or say there is no demand for it! This outdated mentality is far too widely accepted.
I find it hard to believe that I am the only business owner/consumer out there that wants more eco-friendly packaging options available, but isn’t into aluminum and can’t use glass (glass + shower/bathing areas = safety hazard ;)!
Did you realize that only 5% of ALL PET plastic is actually recycled in this country? Did you also realize that currently almost every plastic bottle you use, whether it is as a manufacturer, or as consumer, comes from new (virgin) plastic? This Plastic Attitude is so 20th century!
I will borrow a phrase from the show Bob the Builder (loved by my 4 yr old) – Can we fix it? Yes we can!
It is up to us, and our responsibility, as the business owners and as the consumers of goods supplied to us by other business owners, to start doing the right thing and demand the same from our suppliers.
It is negligent of businesses to not step up and make the positive and necessary changes that would make HUGE differences in the waste put out by our industries. ESPECIALLY if we claim ourselves (as consumers or businesses) to be “green” and “natural” and ‘concerned for the environment”, etc …
If you’re reading this and you truly care about making a difference when it comes to things like the waste level in this world, write to your bottle suppliers and tell them you want to have access to recycled plastic bottles. Tell your shampoo and lotion makers (little or large) to use recycled plastic bottles, etc …
Let them know the demand is not only here for more eco-friendly packaging made from recycled plastic, but that it is huge AND it is the wave of the future, here today !!!
Read more about these great bottles (4th paragraph) :
http://www.cpcpkg.com/magazine/07_03_odplastic_bottles.php