Why Refill?

WHY REFILL? 

1. Money savings – Customers pay by the ounce to refill instead of paying for a whole new package.
2. Resource savings – Most plastic bottles that cleaning products come in -- even earth-friendly, natural products – are recyclable. However, when plastic bottles get recycled they don’t, it’s a resource intensive process. Plastic bottles don’t get recycled into plastic bottles. They get recycled into other plastic items. That means that most of the time when you buy a product in a plastic bottle, new, raw materials were used to create it. Having the ability to refill cleaning product bottles without having to consume additional plastic bottles is a huge environmental help.
3. Combats the disposable mentality – The more we dispose of, either by sending it to the landfill or sending it to the recycling plant, the more we get comfortable with just throwing things away. The disposable mentality is beginning to change. Just look at reusable bags as an example. Refill stations like this one are another step in reversing the disposable mentality that has gripped our culture for so many decades. 

Tips on How to Eliminate Waste

Everyday, mountains of used plastic consumer products and packaging

head to landfills, wasting the materials and energy that created them. Many of us recycle our plastic

containers at curbside and although this is important, an even better effort is to reduce the amount of plastics we buy and to reuse the items we do buy. Reducing and reusing can divert millions of tons of

garbage from landfills every year. We offer the tips below to inspire

you to reduce, reuse, and trim

plastic from your life.

Reduce and Eliminate

Initial actions you might take:

❑ Refill your household containers

❑ Bring your own cup or thermos

when purchasing beverages away

from home.

❑ Avoid plastic by buying in glass

or metal whenever possible.

❑ Look for items with little or no

packaging.

❑ Avoid individually wrapped

portions (cheese slices, juice boxes,

etc.)

❑ Bring your own containers and

bags to stores and refill or reuse

them.

❑ Purchase items in containers that

can be refilled.

❑ Eliminate packaging by buying in

bulk and large containers.

Take these next steps:

❑ Drink filtered tap water. Fill your

own bottles with water, eliminate

waste, and save money.

❑ Buy used items - electronics,

furniture, clothing, bikes, household

items.

❑ Use reusable tableware, plates,

and cloth napkins when hosting a

party.

❑ Refill toner cartridges, pens, and

other office supplies.

❑ Avoid disposable products:

bags, plastic utensils, razors, pens,

lighters, batteries.

❑ Urge your grocery store to carry

products in bulk, or those that have

reduced or recycled packaging.

❑ Ask your nursery if they’ll take

back plastic plant pots.

❑ Choose long-lasting metal or

wood toys and products rather than

plastic.

❑ Rent items that will only be used

a short time. See if your community

has a tool lending library.

❑ Complete the loop by buying

products made with recycled

materials, such as recycled paper

and glass.

❑ Contact the manufacturer of

products whose packaging isn’t

recyclable and ask them to choose

better packaging.

10 Ways to reduce Plastic Consumption

10 Easy Ways to Reduce Plastic Waste

By Nasly Duarte 

1. Refill Your Container through REFILLEMPIRE.  Reuse Reuse Recyle Refill is a unique form of using waist. Using advanced high-potential, high-impact energy technologies that are too early for private-sector investment. RRRR’s project has the potential to radically improve environmental well-being. RRRR empowers Americas’s to refill containers that will end up in landfills. 

2. Eat fresh foods. Here’s an idea…drastically reduce or eliminate all processed foods. Not only is it better for your health, but better for the environment. The less processed foods we eat, the less waste we throw away with paper and plastic packaging.

3. Start toting around a stainless steel or even better, glass water bottle.According to the Americans purchased 31 BILLION bottles of water in 2006. Sad to say that only 10% of that 31 billion was recycled. Which means that nearly 28 billion water bottles are floating around in our landfills. Using a resuable stainless steel or glass water bottle that you fill with properly filtered water is an easy, economical and sustainable way to drastically cut down on plastic consumption.

4. Bring canvas bags to the grocery store. One of the easiest and most convenient ways to cut down on plastic bag and paper bag consumption. In some countries, like Japan, stores will actually charge you a small fee to use plastic bags, a practice I feel we should adopt to help encourage the use of canvas bags.

5. Skip on putting all your produce in those little plastic baggies. This is huge source of waste that I don’t think most of us even pay attention to. If you’re anything like me, the majority of your groceries are veggies and fruit. And just think about how much plastic we waste by putting a couple of apples, a tomato and a cucumber in one of those little baggies. Put your produce directly into your canvas bag while you shop. But, don’t forget to thoroughly wash your produce when you get home, especially since they’ll be sitting naked on the conveyor belt.

6. Choose paper or glass packaging over plastic packaging. Buying eggs? Choose the cardboard egg carton over the plastic. Laundry detergent? Buy the cardboard box over the plastic dispenser. Soap? Choose bar soap over liquid in bottles.

7. Replace your tupperware with glassware containers. Glass containers are so much cooler than tupperware for many reasons 1) You’re not as likely to lose a glass container than you are a cheap plastic one. 2) You can cook, store and reheat in a glass container. 3) They don’t stain like plastic tupperware if you put spaghetti sauce in it. 4) No icky toxic chemicals will leak into your food.

8. Forget buying another bottle of lotion. Use coconut oil (sold in a glass bottle, of course) for a skin moisturizer instead. Coconut oil is a safe, natural and chemical and paraben free moisturizer. Gently melt a tablespoon in a small saucepan and use as an overall body moisturizer. Here’s a link to my favorite brand of coconut oil by Tropical Traditions (OK, I’m a little biased that it’s from the Philippines too!)

9. Buy in bulk and bring in your own papers bags or storage containers if you can.Not only does buying in bulk save a ton of money, but you also cut down on unneccsary plastic packaging. Nuts, beans, rice, spices and legumes are items that are great buying in bulk.

10. Choose wax paper or glass containers instead of Ziplock baggies. Pretty self-explanatory.

11. Use brown grocery bags instead of plastic garbage bags for your trash. There probably isnt’ a house in America that doesn’t have a pantry, closet, or storage space filled with folded up brown paper bags. Instead of buying the white plastic garbage bag

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Mobile Refill Stations! 

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The Question Is

The questions is  "Are people willing to refill containers?"

 Are American's, or people in general to lazy to refill. Are they blind to see how landfills are being dumped by billions of plastic containers? (NOT JUST WATER BOTTLES) 

Do not just Refill your Water Bottle!

Refill your Bottle not just with WATER! 

What other liquids would you consider refilling in your convenience? 

PLEASE REPLY!!!

Welcome to Refillitandsave

                           

                               

Recycle Renew Refill is a unique form of using waist. Using advanced high-potential, high-impact energy technology.. RRR’s project has the potential to radically improve environmental well-being. RRR empowers Americas’s to refill containers that will end up in landfills. 

RRR Project challenges what could radically improve U.S. economic prosperity, and environmental well being through projects that have positive transformation impact to the  environment and society. RRR is a growing to reduce landfills around the world.