Good News Notes:
“If you order a sweater or t-shirt from the clothing brand Eliou, you don’t have to get it in a plastic or cardboard mailer. Instead, you can choose to have it sent in a reusable package. When the shipment arrives, you take out the clothing, fold up the empty package, seal it with the included return label, and drop it in a mailbox to be sent back, cleaned, and used again.
The impact shrinks further each time the bag goes through the system. ‘Even taking into consideration that that empty return path—when the RePack’s folded up and mailed back to us, and the carbon that it takes for that post truck post office truck to take it back—it’s still a huge win over single-use in terms of carbon emissions,’ says Mitch Barlas, the company’s president for North America. The system also helps keep old packages out of landfills.
In Europe, the company has run pilots with large brands like H&M, and now works with 125 companies, with hundreds of thousands of its packages in circulation. In the U.S., where it launched this year, it’s in talks with brands like the North Face and Vans, with several pilots in planning with other companies. Levi’s recently partnered with the Danish brand Ganni to launch a capsule collection that rents out upcycled denim clothing via the new packaging.”
View the whole story here: https://www.fastcompany.com/90571367/this-reusable-packaging-could-help-stop-the-massive-amounts-of-e-commerce-waste