Eco Friendly Laundry Products and Routines
 
While bathrooms boast zero-waste swaps and kitchens can overflow with sustainable alternatives, the laundry room is considered the final frontier for offering eco friendly products. Indeed, Americans continue to discard nearly 1 billion plastic detergent jugs each year, and just one third of them are recycled.
Laundry products have remained staunchly un-environmental over the past 6 decades. And thanks to the monopolies CPG companies have on the market, ethical and eco alternatives to detergent, dryer sheets, fabric softeners, and more face an uphill, David and Goliath-like battle.
On this week’s show, I outline 7 of the best laundry practices from an environmental standpoint. I also bring you a conversation with Angie and Bernard Tran, the founders of Kind Laundry. Kind Laundry is revolutionizing the way we think about laundry detergent and Angie and Bernard come armed to today’s conversation with cold, hard facts about both the environmental implications surrounding those plastic detergent jugs as well as the chemicals that reside within conventional, big-name formulas.
Here’s a preview of today’s episode:
[3:00] 7 practical tips (and eco friendly products!) to make your laundry routine more eco friendly
[19:45] Why and how CPG companies keep plastic relevant
[23:45] Optical brighteners, foaming agents and more: The dirty tricks conventional laundry detergents use to trick consumers into buying
[27:15] The long-term effects traditional laundry detergent has on the planet
 

Resources mentioned in the episode:

* Study: The environmental implications of using hot water for laundry
* Lint LUV-R microfiber filter
* Cora ball
* Guppyfriend washing bag
* Wool dryer balls
* Kind Laundry Sheets (Use code MINIMAL at checkout for 10% off!)

 
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