Seoul-based brand Supublic has developed a series of more sustainable cleaning supplies that save on single-use plastic by replacing liquid products with dissolvable tablets.
Supublic's 1N9 Modern Cleaner project has been shortlisted for this year's Dezeen awards in the sustainable design category.
1N9 Modern Cleaner is a refillable cleaning product system
The studio developed a series of tablets made with a concentration of non-toxic cleaning agents that users can dissolve in water to create 430 millilitres of solution. The name 1N9 is an appreciation of the ratio of 10 per cent detergent to 90 per cent water.
After making the initial purchase of three reusable bottles, consumers can order refill tablets in packs.
Cleaning products come in the form of concentrated tablets that dissolve in water 1N9 Modern Cleaner tablets can then be mixed with water in the same containers, saving them from buying more single-use plastic bottles in the future when the product runs out.
The tablets come in three different versions ? the blue tablet is a multi-purpose cleaner, while the yellow is designed for the bathroom and the orange for the kitchen.

These each come with their own colour-coded and labelled 1N9 Modern Cleaner bottle, which is also recyclable, to enable to user to see what bottle to put which tablet in when it comes to refilling them.
Each colour also features different natural ingredients and scents, with the blue containing orange and lavender, the yellow including coconu...