Did you know the majority of household cleaners you buy in the store are 95% water/5% cleaning solution? I not only resent this from a “feeling ripped off” standpoint, I’m mad I have to push it around the store and lug it from my car inside the house. But nevermind my fury, there’s more.
Did you know it takes a gallon of crude oil to make 29 bottles of household cleaner? That just seems like a lot of oil, energy and waste for a few bottles that will—at best—get recycled a few times (you can only recycle plastic to a point; unlike steel it eventually has to end up landfilled or burned.)
Did you know there’s a green reinvention of household cleaners that I am totally digging? Yes, that’s right.
Planet People’s new line of cleaners branded iQClean allows you to reduce plastic waste by up to 80%—I love this. Buy one spray bottle for their all-purpose, glass, and bathroom cleaner, then purchase a small cartridge of the active ingredients until, well, for a really long time.
We’ve used the glass cleaner sprucing up some seriously season-or-so late spring cleaning on windows. It also worked great on our kitchen counters and other surfaces.
Supply your own tap water. There’s no need to truck it in from the grocery store.
iQClean is available at Drugstore.com and Alice.com.
