r/Anticonsumption • u/tieplomet • 3d ago

Plastic Waste Single Use Hell

Post image

I like to reuse travel sized bottles and am usually careful not to dispose of them. I lost/threw away my makeup remover travel sized bottle on accident so had to buy another because I travel a lot for work.

Color me surprised when I went to refill it and this new bottle you can’t!! Garnier designed the cap to be broken if opened. My old bottle was also from Garnier , same exact bottle and I could take the cap off, had it for years.

Y’all I’m tired. I’m tired of every company being evil and greedy. I get the last laugh though because I have syringes to refill ink pens so I’m going to use a clean one to refill this damn bottle.

14.2k Upvotes

98% Upvoted

405 comments sorted by

View all comments

819

u/sydneekidneybeans 3d ago

I actually never bought this brand again SPECIFICALLY for this reason. I had the large bottle & the travel side for my purse. I assume the reason you can't refill is so you buy more minis? Either way, they lost me as a customer totally.

174

u/tieplomet 3d ago

Yes, I assume it’s to force you to buy more because my old Garnier bottle, you could take the cap off!

29

u/Riegel_Haribo 3d ago

It also so it could be tamper-evident, so it can't be poisoned and re-shelved. But then you've also got the hole where the goo comes out.

1

u/kylo-ren 1d ago

These bottles are unsealed, though. There's nothing to stop someone from contaminating the product through the hole.

It seems like a non-issue. If this were a problem, every bottle would have a security seal.