It’s a sad but true fact: When you clean your home, you often trash the planet. Many cleaners are full of toxic chemicals that are dangerous to both humans and the environment. And there’s the plastic involved: spray bottles, squeeze bottles, pump bottles, and more.
Thankfully, there’s a growing group of nontoxic cleaning brands that are rethinking how to package household products with the environment in mind. Upstart companies like Cleancult and Blueland sell formulas that use tablet forms of nontoxic cleaners, refillable bottles, and avoid single-use plastics. And now, one of the most trusted eco-friendly cleaning brands has created a nontoxic home cleaning arsenal that forgoes all plastics.
“What we realized is that we really need to take action and move ourselves as a business away from plastic, because as good as the plastic is or as little as you use, recycling alone will never solve the problem,” Seventh Generation CEO Joey Bergstein told FC last month. And the problem is enormous: An EPA report published last year found that 26 million tons of plastic used in the U.S. ends up in landfill each year, despite years of effort to improve recycling rates.
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