OUR CIRCULAR ECONOMY

We partnered with Trace, a carbon accounting firm, to calculate how much carbon is emitted in our product’s life cycle. Then, via Trace, we bought the required amount of carbon credits to not just offset what we emitted in production but an extra 1kg per unit of product manufactured.

Yep! Wow, right? You can do that!

The credits are bought from climate projects around the world, and if you’re a real nerd like us you can find out more details about these rad projects by scanning the QR code below.

We’re dealing with the hangover of the industrial revolution, gang! For 200 years we’ve designed systems of production that accelerate human development at the expense of the planet. It’s not enough to simply limit our emissions now - we’ve gotta repair the damage that’s been done. So here at Drop The Soap we figure going carbon neutral is only part of the solution.

To truly affect change we must be eco-restorative. When we undertake any given activity we not only remove the carbon emitted during that process, but also remove more than what was emitted. And we hope other companies begin to follow suit!

We’re passionate about shaking things up in our industry and showing the world how things can be done if you care enough to do things the right way, not the easy way.

For us it’s not about the amount of money we can make, or how cheaply and quickly we can manufacture our products - everything we do is underpinned by the drive to leave the planet in better shape than the way we found it.

Carbon emissions from human activities are a massive bummer. The way it works when that carbon is produced as a byproduct of a company’s activities is also downright dismall. The companies responsible for those emissions don’t have to pay for all that carbon they’re producing.

That cost falls to an unsuspecting third party - for carbon that’s planet Earth.

This sort of thing is what keeps us up at night.

So we’ve worked our arses off to create a brand that’s eco-restorative because we believe that as a company it’s our duty to take responsibility for this cost to the environment. This means that not only is our packaging biodegradable and low impact to begin with, but we include carbon emissions into the cost structure of the product.

Incorporating the carbon emissions cost into the product - from the design stage all the way to distribution - highlights the resources that go into manufacturing and selling each product.

Carbon emissions all of a sudden become a tangible cost that can be minimised further with the decisions we make about how we package our products.

The result of this is that we use less resource intensive packaging, lightweight, plant-based or recycled single polymer construction.