I’m always looking at how I can cut my ‘landfill’ product use, and it always, as with anybody’s opinion starts with the household consumables. What am I using and how can it be greener?
What am I using and how can it be greener?
I’ve been using King of Shaves for a number of years now, this is due to a number of factors that would boggle the mind of the marketing people responsible. I originally picked up my first tube primarily because it looked cool, and I had seen it in FHM a few times; the second reason was that I’m the kind of guy that loves to root for the underdog, I think they make better products than the big boys, and you can recognise the passion that they put behind their products. This doesn’t account for every company and product that doesn’t have a large market share, but I’m sure you can recognise the ones I’m talking about.
Only recently I realised that King of Shaves have been doing something right, without actually saying it. They’ve been using a simple pure plastic container that is easily recyclable for years. This is unlike Gillette and the rest of the shaving accessory market, that have been putting out more and more complicated dispensers over the years. Now as an environmentalist that has some idea of how recycling works, I know that it is far easier to recycle an item that contains one type of plastic, or even 2 that are easily separated. The majority of recycling facilities across the globe can only recycle a few types of plastic, and if they are products with a metal base, plastic top, and glass insert, this gets chucked away due to the impossibilities of dismantling these items on the fly, to their respected destinations.
Now King of shaves is a good product, it’s one of the few shaving gels that do not cause me to break out, or burn my skin. I still use a gillette razor, but given the next opportunity to switch, I think I’ll look into the new razor from King of Shaves, that is supposed to last longer.
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