Pastel-coloured aluminium bottles of cleaning products can be purchased once and reused endlessly with UK startup Spruce's plastic-free dehydrated refills.
Spruce offers a more sustainable way of repurchasing its multi-purpose cleaning or bathroom spray. The startup has been shortlisted for sustainable design of the year at Dezeen Awards 2020.
Spruce's eternity bottles are purchased once then refilled
The first purchase set comes with what Spruce calls an eternity bottle made of metal, and a trigger spray pump. Customers can then continue to use it with Spruce's plastic-free refills, saving them from continual purchases of cleaning products in plastic containers.
Refills arrive in sachets made of compostable material. To refill the bottle, the sachet contents are emptied into the bottle and mixed with tap water to create 500 millilitres of cleaning liquid. Spruce offers one-off refill packs of three or a recurring subscription service. Spruce's multi-purpose spray contains geranium leaf essential oil
"For the compostable refill packs, we are using a paper material with a very thin layer of plant-based bioplastic, all from responsible sources," Spruce founder Mahira Kalim told Dezeen.
"The layer is very thin and completely free of petrochemicals."
Each packet can be cut up and added to the food waste or compost bin.
"It will decompose into biomass under ambient conditions within 14 weeks, as opposed to regular plastic bottles that live on for more th...