Comments on: New Soap, Old Bottle – Reducing Trash with Reuse

By: ali

ali — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 04:25:39 +0000

Has anyone successfully contacted this company? I reached out to them a few times now, all I’m looking for is information on how they sterilize their bottles. Does anyone on here have any helpful insight on the matter? Any bit of info will help, I will even go as far as inquire as to where to purchase this sterilizing machinery. I’ve been searching for a long time now to find a company that sanitizes recycled plastic water bottles, and as of now purchasing the machinery seems like the only way as I was unable to come across such company.

By: Jean-Paul

Jean-Paul — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:08:27 +0000

Pablo,

I think you have a great point, if this is the case. I was under the impression that the liquids were bought in bulk (ie. large buckets) in which case there is still some waste, but a great reduction in packaging and bottles when compared to the traditional product.

Regardless, I think it is a great way to get people talking about packaging and become more aware of how much we throw away without even thinking.

I will try and contact them to get their response to your statement and comment about it a bit more.

Thanks for contributing!

Jean-Paul

By: Pablo moralez

Pablo moralez — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 06:30:26 +0000

This is NOT an “eco-friendly” product.

“New Soap, Old Bottle”(NSOB) purchases liquid soap from other companies to resell the same soap in their recycled bottles. In other words, NSOB buys liquid soap from company “A”, THROWS AWAY the empty bottles from company “A” and refills their recycled bottles with liquid soap. NSOB is not reducing trash disposal!

It looks like a good idea, but it is nothing more than a scheme..

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By: Jean-Paul

Jean-Paul — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:48:55 +0000

Dan C,

That sounds excellent! I am not familiar with copyright law as it pertains to packaging, and would urge you to contact New Soap, Old Bottle directly. I have forwarded them your email address along with this comment, so hopefully you guys can work something out.

Cheers!
-JP

By: Dan C

Dan C — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 18:22:34 +0000

This is a great concept, my company makes a liquid soap from 100% post-consumer recycled content. We have wanted to package our liquid soap in used soda bottles for a while, but we are concerned about copyright infringement. Most soda bottles carry the brand name as part of the plastic bottle mold.

For example coke bottles have the Coca Cola logo as part of the plastic mold. Additionally the silhouette of the coke bottle is also trademarked. Have you had any issues with this? Perhaps once the bottles are discarded, this “trash” can be used in any fashion for repackaging??

We have considered reheating these bottles and deforming them to the point of being unrecognizable.

Any insight would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.