Thanks for telling us why it's bad for the environment

Why did I have to learn this in meatspace, and not on the internet from random kids? Things ain’t right, I tell you, when my extended family knows and/or cares more about an environmental topic than left-leaning Lemmy.

Because everything is on fire and while using less soap and laundry detergent bottles is certainly a good goal to aim for, it is rearranging deck chairs on the titanic and worse it is rearranging deck chairs according to the directions of a captain who is trying to distract everyone from dealing with the fact that the ship is sinking.

Recycling by and large doesn’t work but corporations really don’t care because recycling is a great way to sell consumers the experience of being environmental when consuming and it provides way to shift blame and get people focused on recycling rather than the actions of big corporations.

As recycling implodes as a cultural ritual of “doing your part” to save the environment there has been a rise in advertisements from companies selling smaller detergent and soap bottles and I think they are trying to fulfill the same emotional need and story .

Which isn’t to say these soap bottles aren’t a good thing, but if the left leaning people you interact with aren’t focused on this… I don’t think that is indicative of anything but the high number of existential environmental problems we face and the general refusal of neoliberal and rightwing governments to tackle them.

We've switched to solid shampoo

only drawback is it can be harder to tell which is shampoo and which is conditioner, because there's no single-use plastic telling me which is which.

I humbly ask for deletion of this information, so it stays off Lemmy! Bar soap is more "dense", as you don't need that much water for it which reduces required water in production, weight in shipping and less packaging. Bar soap is generally a bit more aggressive towards the skin however with higher pH.

My question is, why are concentrated soaps not bigger for human use like they are for animals? The shampoo and conditioner to wash my dog comes in a gallon jug and dilutes 50:1. That gallon jug lasts me years, and I'm bathing a golden retriever that has a lot of hair. If shampoo came by default in a gallon jug we just had to mix once or twice a month with water in a separate bottle we would save so much plastic, so much cost, and so much transportation weight!

And concentrated products for pets are more common than diluted ones. So clearly we know how to do this, why don't we do it for human stuff too by default?

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Trickle some of that down please

https://www.target.com/p/deep-moisturizing-body-wash-up-up/-/A-54539082?preselect=11625128#lnk=sametab

$5.49, but who's counting?

The only thing that it indicates is that you're not wasteful.

But i'm thinking if you cry about it, the meaning is pretty clear.

I'm even designing a 3D printed jig so I can securely connect any two bottles and let gravity do the work overnight.

Same. I still believe "if you take care of the pennies the dollars take care of themselves" of course, that implies the ownership of dollars, which some do not have, so this wisdom does not always translate completely.

Watering down the remaining 7-in-1 shower product because they can't afford to replenish supplies because the price of everything is too damn high.

Running a small amount of water into a nearly empty bottle of shampoo (or body wash, etc.) allows you to get the last little bit out of the bottle. It's basically an austerity measure, a sign that a person is stretching every dollar.

That's Jerry from Tom and Jerry

Specifically, from this scene

I just can't figure out why top opening or pump based soaps can't just have a bottom opening spout instead. simple design issue resolves waste, good for everyone involved.