Stopping plastic waste for everyone
A major environmental problem
Single-use disposable plastic sachets are one of the world's most problematic forms of plastic packaging. Companies like Unilever, P&G and L'Oréal use them extensively to sell single doses of personal care products like shampoo, but they cannot be recycled. They wash into waterways and rivers and are a primary cause of ocean microplastic
The sachet problem is well documented but little is changing (The Guardian, Gaia, Bloomberg, Greenpeace...)
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With around 1 trillion plastic sachets used every year and set to double by 2030, the need for a solution is pressing
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Developing a solution
Beat The Sachet worked with people in India to develop a reuse system suitable for all consumers. So far as we know, it's the only reuse solution designed with and for marginally employed communities
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It worked with an NGO partner in India to test the concept. The pilot ran for over a year, stopped 5000 sachets/month, and participants were very enthusiastic
In addition to preventing plastic waste, the solution brings local employment and female empowerment with training for new job roles for women
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Growing recognition
India Plastics Pact highlighted the solution’s promising potential to scale with low-income consumers in rural and urban areas and UNNATI Waste Management Services featured it for its role supporting female empowerment with training and new roles for women. Sir Stephen Timms, Member of Parliament and UK Government Minister, provided support in a letter encouraging people and organisations to help
Also, Beat The Sachet was selected as one of the best ideas to prevent plastic waste in India by the UK’s Global Business Innovation Program that worked with the British High Commission in Mumbai and Ahmedabad to promote it
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We’re raising funds to improve and expand this pilot so it works across more product categories, stops over a million sachets a year and helps demonstrate a scalable solution that could be rolled out more broadly
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