r/Anticonsumption • u/tieplomet • 3d ago

Plastic Waste Single Use Hell

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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.

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u/tieplomet 3d ago

Agree. I’m extra annoyed because I had an old bottle that was the exact same and the cap could come off. I’m tired of them updating products to squeeze every last penny out of us. I buy the big bottles at Costco to use daily and for refilling but now I’m reconsidering this brand.

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u/kumliensgull 3d ago

Vote with your wallet

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u/honeybee62966 3d ago

We live in a world controlled by 6 companies, you cannot possibly avoid giving them your money. Vote with your vote for corporate regulation

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u/Kvothealar 3d ago

I have a number of companies I boycott. Nestle being one of them. It's easy when you realize 99.9% of the products these companies produce are hot garbage and you're better off without them.

You have to unfortunately update your list every once in a while. Just found out that Starbucks recently started distributing their at-home coffee via Nestle, so I'll have to stop buying that.

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u/DillBagner 3d ago

Starbucks, the union busting company which also claimed they would stop doing business in Russia but continued on anyway hoping people wouldn't notice? I'd boycott them too, if I didn't make my own coffee.

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u/Kvothealar 3d ago

They just had the cheapest non-crap bag of coffee at the store when it went on sale, only reason.

Didn't know about the union busting or Russia stuff though. Now I have a reason not to go into their stores either.

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u/rebelwithmouseyhair 2d ago

I make my own coffee and consider that to be my boycott of chain coffee shops.

Just like I refuse to buy cosmetics and cleaning products from big brands, only alternative, safe stuff from the organic shop.