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Fill-to-order, label-per-household, closed-loop container swap

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A central facility fills durable standardised containers to order, labelled per household; a carrier delivers full units and collects empties on the same stop for central cleaning and refill. Filling only on order kills the contamination window; the doorstep swap removes dispens…

Algramo· since 2013· City

Algramo ("by the gram" in Spanish) operates a refill model in Santiago, Chile, built around reusable packaging with an RFID chip. Customers buy products such as cleaning liquids by the gram into a reusable container; an…

Customer reuse rate~10%80%+%
Neighbourhood stores (bodegas) covered~2000stores
Algramo, with investment from Closed Loop Ventures (Closed Loop Partners); corporate partnership with Unilever· 1 source
Author AvatarArnaud Gissinger
Loop (TerraCycle) with various retail partners (Kroger, Walgreens, Fred Meyer, Giant, Walmart, Tesco and others)· 2019–2023· National

Alongside its France rollout, Loop ran reusable-packaging pilots in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Japan. The original model was a standalone e-commerce service: products shipped to consumers in a reusabl…

Loop (TerraCycle) in partnership with Carrefour· since 2019· National

Loop, TerraCycle's reusable-packaging platform, is an explicit modern milk-round: products are sold in durable containers that are collected, cleaned and refilled rather than recycled. Loop launched at Davos in 2019 and…

Products available in reusable packaging370+products
Supermarkets carrying the system345stores
TerraCycle / Loop with retail partner Carrefour and participating consumer-goods brands· 2 sources
Author AvatarArnaud Gissinger

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