You Can Reduce Plastic Waste with Mother’s Earth Wash Strips – Turning Dutch

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I recently discovered Mother’s Earth laundry and dishwasher strips. Mother’s Earth is a Dutch mother and son enterprise with a mission to supply plastic free washing products.

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Our plastic bin is emptied by the council rubbish collection service every month, and it’s full every single time. I am trying to reduce the amount of plastic that comes into our home, but it really isn’t easy. All the good intentions are difficult to realise as you walk around the supermarkets and see just how much of our weekly groceries are wrapped in plastic. (The Netherlands doesn’t have a great plastic track record).

When it comes to laundry detergent, the plastic use is evident. I do at least a wash a day, most days. We are a family of 5 with two footballers in the house – that’s two trainings and a match per week. There are school gym lessons too. And then just daily life. And so I always go for the money saving xl bottles of washing detergents.

Compare my regular stash of washing detergent and Mother’s Earth wash strips:

One cardboard envelope v 3 plastic bottles.

So here’s a massive reason to try Mother’s Earth wash strips: you reduce your use of plastic in your household.

2. Donate to Good Causes

Mother’s Earth donates their products (based on their sales) to places like animal shelters and women’s refuge centres. So far over 100,000 washes have been donated to places that help people and animals in need. I can get on board with that.

Does What it Says on the Cardboard Envelope

I have been using the wash strips for a couple of weeks. The strips come in two varieties – scentless and spring breeze. I love the spring breeze scent, it gives clothes that real smell of fresh laundry. The wash strips (both scented and unscented)I wash the clothes as well as the detergent I normally use. Aside from a different scent, I wouldn’t have been aware of the switch if I wasn’t the mug doing all the washing in our house.

As I mentioned, I have two footballers in the house. The fabulous news is that they play in white shorts and white thermals. I often have to soak all this before throwing it in the washing machine, and Mother’s Earth strips can be used for stain removal too, and then put in the machine. The end result has been the same with the strips as it is after soaking and washing with my usual detergent for white washing.

So same result, no plastic waste. And that makes me happy.

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