Have a cool 'plastic-free' product idea that's keeping you up at night?

(Thank you for correcting the dates on the rules). A cigarette butt that is compostable. I don’t smoke and hate when people smoke, but hate more when they are reckless with the communal environment by dropping butts everywhere.

I would like to have pet poop waste bags that decompose when they are disposed. We purchase bags that are made from recyclable products but they are still plastic bags. When we walk our dog we use 2-4 of these bags each day and we need an alternative – especially given the frequent use of them. We want to keep our neighborhood clean and free of pet waste. It would be so great to do so while not adding to the plastic waste. Thanks!

My bathroom is full of plastic bottles. As a “middle-aged” woman, I use a moisturizer, a night cream , and eye cream and a toner daily. The products I use, from Beauty Counter and Kiehl’s all tout their natural ingredients, but their packaging is terrible. I think you should consider partnering with a an organic cosmetics firm (of similar size and strategy as Etee) and come out with a line of cosmetics sustainably packaged and then market them jointly. Also, quality facial soaps are in short supply.

see if you can partner with bigger companies to provide your products on the shelf. Find a plastic free meat tray. numbers 5,6, 7 are not recycled, but thrown in the trash

I have seen a video where they were making a thin plastic like material from nopals. Maybe gloves could be made from it for single use. Like for handling raw meat, etc

I have a very modest proposal, to further the attempt to keep existing plastic out of the landfill: a “transformation” kit; for the transformation of existing plastic containers. This could involve spiffy “everything touches everything else” labels for various products as well as some kind of orange-oil variation on “Goo Gone” – in a non-plastic container – and a non-disposible scraper or scrubber (or blueprint for a DIY repurposed-plastic one), to neutralize pre-loved plastic containers by removing their labels.

I know that you already recommend reusing old plastic dishsoap bottles for your concentrated dish soap, but this may make the proposition a bit “sexier” and far-reaching. (And it could be a fun and easy design project for you folks.) Gotta find a way to make use of more of the eeevil plastic that we’re already stuck with it.

Plastic Free electric toothbrush heads for already existing electric toothbrushes such as oral b heads. Eliminate people from throwing out plastic heads but allow them to keep their already existing working toothbrush. No need to throw the whole thing out if you are wanting to be plastic free.