Dehydrated cleaning products minimise plastic packaging
#OCBCCares Environment Fund to stop calling for applications from this year and will instead refocus on upstream projects such as other ways of deploying funding to mitigate climate change issues.
Vivien Ang
THE novel coronavirus pandemic was a catalyst for new norms - such as working from home - and the more frequent use of cleaning products.
A report published by Nielsen in March showed that sales for items such as liquid antiseptic and hand sanitiser rose in Singapore. Supermarket shelves cleared of household cleaning products were a common sight during the outbreak.
This trend has given rise to more plastic waste. Team SimplyGood - one of the five ground-up projects that the #OCBCCares Environment Fund 2020 is supporting - has found a way to make dehydrated cleaning products that can cut the amount of plastic packaging by as much as 90 per cent, compared to bottled ones.
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