Fill-to-order, label-per-household, closed-loop container swap
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A central facility fills standardised containers to order, labelled per household; a carrier delivers full units and collects empties on the same stop for cleaning and refill. Filling only on order closes the contamination window and the swap removes dispensing friction.
Santiago, Chile
SuccessAlgramo · 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…
Algramo, with investment from Closed Loop Ventures (Closed Loop Partners); corporate partnership with Unilever · 1 source
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…
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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…
TerraCycle / Loop with retail partner Carrefour and participating consumer-goods brands · 2 sources