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At InnoQube Switzerland Demo Day in Chur, Switzerland, BOTTLESS pitched alongside 19 other startups. Demo Day marked the finale of our super-intensive two-month journey and the beginning of a new adventure. I pray for every startup's survival and victory. We will create something remarkable. #BOTTLESS #TheRightSolutionAtTheRightTime

🧐The Benefits of Pump Dispensers in Beauty and Cosmetics** 1. Convenience   Pump dispensers allow for easy and quick access to the product without any hassle. 2. Hygiene    They help maintain hygiene by reducing the risk of contamination from hands or external elements. 3. Portability   Pump dispensers are designed to be portable, making them easy to carry and use on the go. 4. Proper Dosage    They ensure the proper amount of product is dispensed each time, preventing waste. 5. Preserves Product Integrity    By minimizing exposure to air and contaminants, pump dispensers help preserve the integrity and longevity of the product. #BOTTLESS #TheRightSolutionAtTheRightTime

Reuse beats single-use on every environmental metric series. 6. Reuse protects our oceans and helps solve plastic pollution.  • More than a third of all plastic packaging produced winds up in the environment, and single-use food and beverage packaging comprise 2/3 of the top 20 most-commonly found plastic pollution items. • Many of the products found on the top 20 most-commonly found plastic pollution items can be eliminated by either customers bringing their own reusables – or better yet, the businesses providing food, beverages and other consumable products in reusables – either themselves or by contracting with reuse service providers that handle the collecting, cleaning and stocking of the reusable containers. 

5. Reuse prevents litter. Reuse prevents litter and saves communities money from having to clean up litter on the streets and in storm drains and rivers. • Litter cleanup costs US taxpayers nearly $12 billion dollars annually; over $500 million in California alone. • The most common object found during litter clean-up is fast food litter. • Litter reduction efforts like banning single-use plastic bags and putting fees on single-use paper bags can dramatically reduce litter. • For example, San Mateo County found an 85% reduction in litter in the storm drain system; Washington D.C. found a 75% reduction in litter entering local waterways; and the County of Los Angeles found 95% increase in consumers carrying reusable bags. California noted a 60% reduction in single-use plastic bags one year after implementation of the state-wide plastic bag ban. https://lnkd.in/g8UVW8Q #BOTTLESS #TheRightSolutionAtTheRightTime

✋🤚 4. Reuse stops waste before it starts. Reuse stops waste and reduces costs for businesses and local governments to manage it. • The U.S. produces more than 30 percent of the planet’s total waste, though it is home to only 4 percent of the world’s population. • Americans throw out 7 pounds of materials per person every day – that’s 2,555 pounds of materials per American every year. Thirty percent of our waste is single-use products and packaging. • Single-use disposables add costs to businesses to buy the single-use products and pay for waste hauling. • They also add costs to city governments for managing the waste. • But substituting reusables for disposables not only prevents this waste, it also saves businesses and taxpayers money. https://lnkd.in/g8UVW8Q #BOTTLESS #TheRightSolutionAtTheRightTime

🫵 Reuse prevents the unnecessary exploitation of our natural world. Every time we use a single-use item and put in the garbage, we also throw away all the natural resources – the trees, the oil, the water and the energy – it took to make and get that product into our hands. • Think about all the times you have dined at a restaurant, cafeteria or venue where you were served with single-use plates, cups, and cutlery – and ended up throwing a pile of garbage away after your meal. • Or when you’re at a coffee shop – and there are real mugs behind the counter – but everyone is drinking out of throw-away cups with plastic lids. • Or when you’re ordering take-out food or delivery, and you’re given plastic cutlery and napkins and all this stuff you don’t actually need – not to mention the bags and single-use containers that come automatically. • These same actions are repeated billions of times a day by billions of people living all over the world – day after day, year after year. • But the good news is that reuse can prevent the cutting down of trees, the mining of metals, and the drilling for fossil fuels associated with single-use disposable products and packaging. https://lnkd.in/g8UVW8Q #BOTTLESS #TheRightSolutionAtTheRightTime

🤩Reuse can save water. Over their life cycle, reusable products, foodware and packaging generally use less water than disposable alternatives. • Similar to greenhouse gas emissions, the largest water use occurs in the resource extraction and manufacturing phases for different types of disposable materials. • The water use from single-use-disposables during the production phases is generally greater than that from reusables once the reusables have been used and washed a certain number of times. • The main water impacts of reusables come from washing. • The water used in the growing phase of bio-based plastics make them a less favorable choice among single-use foodware options, whereas the consumption phase (i.e. ware washing) for reusables represents 85-95% of the water impacts of reusable foodware. https://lnkd.in/g8UVW8Q #BOTTLESS #TheRightSolutionTheRightTime 🤞

🤓 Over their life cycle, reusable products, foodware and packaging have lower greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) compared to disposable alternatives. • With disposables, the largest greenhouse gas impacts occur in the resource extraction and manufacturing phases, mostly plastics from fossil fuels, paper from trees, bioplastics/biomaterials from crops, and aluminum from mining. • The GHGs from single-use-disposables dwarf those from reusables once the reusables have been used a certain number of times. This varies according to different types of reusable products; the materials they’re made from; the efficiency of the washing machines used; and the sources of energy for the regional electricity grid. • The main energy impacts of reusables occur during washing. With the increasing efficiency of dishwashers, the benefits have increased over time and continue to do so. https://lnkd.in/g8UVW8Q #BOTTLESS #TheRightSolutionAtTheRightTime

The next series will explore how reusing plastics outperforms single-use plastics. Regardless of the material—be it bioplastics or any type of eco-friendly plastics—sticking to single-use is not the solution. https://lnkd.in/g8UVW8Q #BOTTLESS #TheRightSolutionAtTheRightTime

You might have forgotten, plastics come from fossil fuels. However, there are no proper alternatives like battery cars! #BOTTLESS #TheRightSolutionAtTheRightTime