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As a regular consumer, Jerrine Koh acknowledges the convenience of plastic packaging.

But as a sustainably conscious one, she's more than concerned about how that plastic is disposed of.

"When it comes to single-use packaging for consumer products, we are producing at a speed way faster and creating more waste than we can recycle," says Koh.

Likewise, her business partner Shanna Ng worries about the kind of planet her children will inherit. "We read about the detrimental effects on our planet as a result of human consumption, and I believe we can do our part in one way or another to create a sustainable future," says Ng.

The duo, who run a boutique creative resource agency together, came up with Quinn and Oliver, a range of powder body wash in food grade stainless steel containers. Customers only need to fill the bottle with some water, ad…