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Shampoo Bottle

By Mo and Chloe

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Materials

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  • Made from Plastic, extracting from oil.
  • Carbon-containing compounds
  • large molecules called polymers, combining from units of small and shorter carbon-containing molecules called monomers.
  • Electricity consumption
  • Greenhouse gases emission

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Manufacturing

  • The HDPE is melted down, recycled and cooled in mold
  • Most of the P&G headquarters in China uses renewable energy resources.
  • No extraction of palm oil (Head & Shoulders)
  • Zero manufacturing waste plans for most factories

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Distribution

  • Manufactured in the factories across the world and shipped to regional Stockist (Agency, Enterprise)
  • Wrapped in plastic and put in package of 6 bottles.

=> Whole-seller => Retailers => Consumers

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=> Retailers => Consumers

  • Combustion of fossil fuel as the products are shipped and transported using planes and trucks.

Amount of carbon produced from Head & Shoulders Headquarter in Blois, France to West Lebanon, NH: 9.16 lbs CO2/1 containers of 6

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Usage

  • Purchased and used until the bottles are empty. They are discarded later.
  • About 300 million people in the U.S use shampoo bottles

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Disposal

  • Route 1: Plastic takes about 1000 years to decompose
  • Route 2: To the ocean
  • Route 3: To recycling plant where they are squeezed together, melted down, shredded, then molded in to pellets so the can be used to make up 10% of the next shampoo bottle.
  • 47,371,930 shampoo bottles thrown each year.
  • 1 in 5 people recycle their bathroom products.

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Head & Shoulders Recyclable Bottle

  • Head & Shoulder collect plastic left on beaches. 25% of which is turned into new bottle.
  • The plastic are sorted and crushed into pellets

=> Turned into the bottle. These bottles will be available in Europe in 2018.