It's Earth Day: Time to Write About a So-Called "Eco" Product That Doesn't Suck
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By now you know it’s Earth Day, which means you’re not going to let the Escalade idle with the AC on while you’re inside at the tanning salon—if only for today. This year we’re using the well-intentioned faux-holiday to provide us with just enough thematic cover to indulge our private enthusiasm for laundry detergent. Of course, this being Earth Day, it isn’t just any run-of-the mill detergent in one of those jumbo orange plastic jugs, but a more efficient, more elegant approach to getting clothes clean, one that uses less water, fewer harmful cleaning agents, and a lot less plastic than goes into those gargantuan bottles. Method is the San Fran-based company behind the super concentrated, fully biodegradable detergent that cleans your nasty, smelly, spilled-on clothes without requiring cupful after cupful of the usual, suspiciously blue stuff you’re used to. Method’s detergent comes in a slender pump bottle (no bigger than a 20 oz. bottle of Cherry Coke Zero) that you can toss into your laundry bag like just another ball of sweaty socks, and know that you’ve saved a little (or a lot) of plastic in the process.
And if you’re skeptical, having been burned by too-tame "eco" products that were more green than clean, Method seems to have laced their good intentions with the science to get the job done. They also make a kick-ass bleach-free dishwasher detergent, but we’ll save that for Mother’s Day.
And if you want to get two bucks off on a bottle, go here.
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