Loop

A new way to shop, without the waste.

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A new way to shop, without the waste.

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Loop is an innovative e-commerce platform that provides trusted products redesigned for a waste-free shopping experience.

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How is this not trending more? Their partner-brands are massive and going out of their way to make it work it seems (chewable toothpaste 🦷by OralB ...), no useless plastic or cardboard, massive value for the brands as recurring purchase almost guaranteed.... Prediction time: Amazon will buy them or recreate if it's mildly popular. #green 🌍 👍🛒

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7yr ago

Overnight 2.0

@antoinetheman shameless plug 😉 but have you seen http://bitetoothpastebits.com ?

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7yr ago

@antoinetheman Agree with you. This should be trending big time because this is a huge deal. Major brands working together to help reduce single plastic use. This kind of initiative can help change the world.

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7yr ago

@antoinetheman @asher_hunt Interesting toothpaste but not in my budget. x.x

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7yr ago

Tokyo is a pilot city? Nope, not going to work there, I don't think -- not among Japanese people anyhow. Maybe US and Euro expats. The Japanese have some ingenious packaging, e.g., convenience store sushi wrapped in such a way that the seaweed never touches the rice until you pull the packaging apart. And they have individually wrapped fruit, and that sort of thing. Packaging is an integral part of the merchandising. And they already recycle all of their beverage containers, which are all standardized, including the plastic labels.

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7yr ago

@cacarr No, the two initial pilot cities are Paris and New York

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7yr ago

@askdaylen - Ah, Tokyo and San Francisco in 2020. I don't see it working with Japanese culture.

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7yr ago

SecurePik

Pros: Nice Idea to refill products that we use every day, like the Milkman back in the day. Reminds me of the MLM (Multi Level Marketing) Malaluka ( a company that needs more transparency). Cons: Common brands wasting our resources and creating resources that are not beneficial. 🍊 Enjoy your juice. Not.

Solution(?) Have clients refill at the grocery store. Less driving 🚚 = less pollution 🏭 . They are obviously not going to be driving EVs while doing this renewable service.

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7yr ago

@jessehojjensen They do have European retail partners, but no US grocers signed on. TerraCycle (which runs Loop) uses UPS, which has a very green fleet compared to their competitors. It is actually more eco friendly for these vehicles to deliver your groceries, as it's basically like a bus (many goods inside and dropping off at multiple locations), compared to driving a car to get goods that were trucked to a big building (a store), which needs land, heat, electricity, etc.

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7yr ago

I like it and I don't like it. I am just like the next guy to save the planet, be conscious, use reusable However, the reason why brands spend that much on branding because it is part of the experience and the way for them to stand out. So I want my milk being ... eh... just milk, I don't care how it looks like, it is white thingy in my fridge. But I want my expensive aftershave in the standout packaging, at least I would not use detergent instead of it because it is in the same looking package. Not for me, sorry

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7yr ago

@ipstas What a poor judgment Stan, you seem to care more about your self than your planet. Your attitude is your legacy to your chidren. I hope you just wrote this up wih no second thoughts. At the end, we will win over selfsih people like you seem to be

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7yr ago

@ipstas @ramonpuig I'm not sure that it's a poor judgement. Packaging one of the very important ways brands market to consumers and it's churlish to ignore that. Loop has a strong concept in trying to remove the need for single use packaging however I'm yet to be convinced whether a workable business model can come from the cost of picking up empty bottles, transporting them back to some facility, cleaning them, refilling and delivering again to the customer in a way that isn't costly and environmentally unfriendly compared to just buying a bottle in a shop. Bottle deposit schemes and the like already do this effectively in plenty of countries. All this seems fairly up-in-the-air as the website doesn't have much more than a promo video

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7yr ago

I signed up to check this out if it rolls out in my area. There are a couple things: 1. Will price (less deposits) be comparable? 2. Will more natural brands be added? Someone mentioned using natural products. I'm in that camp. I'd use this if I could start getting some of those types of products in a plastic-free way.

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7yr ago

It's a great idea and I wanted to use the service, but it's damn expensive. Over 15 dollars for mixed nuts? I'm hoping that it will get cheaper when they have more customers, but at those prices I wonder how many can afford to use this as their source for groceries.

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7yr ago

I was just thinking that this should exist a few weeks ago. I'm glad someone is doing it! With all the deliveries we get from online shopping these days, packaging is getting ridiculously wasteful. This is a brilliant solution!

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7yr ago

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