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Shopping with the environment in mind is not always easy: little transparency on products usually also means spending more time shopping. Perhaps you have experienced the following situation yourself: you are standing in the supermarket in front of a shelf with countless products from different manufacturers and all sorts of brands in every conceivable variant. And all you want is to buy the product …
Berlin, September 2020. Around 1.5 million tonnes of laundry, household and cleaning products are used in German households every year. The problem: these products frequently contain microplastics. As a result, more than 500 tonnes of these plastic particles pass through German drains alone every year into nature, into waters and arable soils, and via animals and plants also …
Berlin, September 2020. Using recyclate plays a decisive role in minimising the production of new plastics and instead keeping existing plastic in the loop. The long-established company VERMOP is now demonstrating how this can be achieved successfully in professional cleaning, and is relying on independent certification from the flustix initiative: the EQUIPE buckets …
flustix founder Malte Biss introduces himself and flustix – RETHINK PLASTICS in a detailed interview on StartupValley.news. In it he shares tips drawn from his experience as a founder in the sustainability sector. He also explains how you can do something about the growing pollution of our planet “without wagging a finger”. You can read the interview here.
The German Center for Research and Innovation (DWIH) New York promotes innovation and collaboration by planning and hosting events on current topics from the sciences and the humanities, and by taking part in conferences, science fairs and career fairs. We are delighted that the DWIH has now published an informative article about the flustix PLASTIC-FREE seals. …
First products in the intimate care segment certified as free from microplastics A first in cosmetics: after successful testing, the products in the Prime Line from intimate care company Loovara may carry the flustix microplastic-free seal. That makes Loovara the first supplier to offer certified microplastic-free intimate care products in its range. Verifiably free from microplastics – after successful testing, flustix certifies …
Berlin, August 2020. Demand for genuinely microplastic-free cosmetics keeps rising. More and more suppliers are therefore meeting consumers’ wish for microplastic-free care products and relying on the only independent certification of its kind, the flustix seals – which provide assurance and build trust. The latest example is KHK GmbH of Cologne, a specialist and white-label as well as …
Berlin, July 2020. Since April 2019 flustix has been giving consumers and companies DIN-verified certainty about regranulates and the recyclate content of products – with the flustix RECYCLED seal. Until now the combined mark from flustix and DIN CERTCO focused on certifying goods produced entirely or partly from plastic recyclate. Now flustix, together with …
Provocative, indecent, awkward: periods, the taboo subject. You simply do not talk about your period! For a long time that was the general consensus. Please do it quietly and in secret and do not talk about it openly, nobody wants to know! Today we want to turn to the subject, because periods have long since stopped being a taboo and numerous start-ups with innovative product ideas are serving a …
Good news for flustix! In a ruling, the Higher Regional Court of Munich has prohibited self-declaration using the claim “plastic-free”. Consumers must not be misled by unverified statements! The case: a manufacturer of coffee capsules advertised on pack with “plastic-free” and “without/no plastic” as well as with home compostability. A competitor took legal action and has now obtained a legally binding …
Berlin, February 2020. Fast fashion is OUT – fair and environmentally conscious fashion is IN. Although well-known textile brands make “sustainability” promises ever more frequently, consumers have few ways of telling sustainable fashion apart from dubious “greenwashing” claims. Now flustix, as the only protected seal for labelling plastic sustainability, has certified the first plastic-free T-shirt. MUNTAGNARD …
The “urge to make a positive change” is probably the best motivation there is for founding a sustainable company. At the outset it was not at all clear that a clothing brand would come of it. According to MUNTAGNARD’s founding story, managing directors Dario Pirovino and Dario Grünenfelder turned to the textile industry “purely by chance” during a joint brainstorming session. Which innovative products …
As a proud winner of the Crowd Award, flustix is delighted that the Seedmatch team has published a guest article by Malte Biss. In the blog post the flustix founder explains why it is becoming ever more important for companies to have plastic-free products (or the use of recyclate in products, components and semi-finished goods) independently tested and certified, rather than advertising with self-declarations. …
The consumer seal for a sustainable approach to plastic wins the hearts of the ‘crowd’ at Seedmatch Yesterday, and the award ceremony in the evening at the Green Alley Award from Landbell & Seedmatch, brought plenty of excitement. Not only did we get to exchange ideas with the professionals of the business world, we also met five …
Why a drinks bottle made from recycled plastic is the right solution for organic tea with juice The organic children’s food manufacturer ‘la marchante’ wanted the most sustainable packaging possible for its sugar-free organic teas under the TeeFee brand. Searching for a handy and environmentally friendly alternative to the beverage carton, founders Marco Rühl & Jill-Evelyn Erlach decided …
What could be more wonderful than playing in the water and swimming in summer? But it is not just swimming that matters – behaving correctly in and around water is important too. That is why Franziska van Almsick and the HÄRTER children’s book publishing house have brought out the handy book “PAUL UND PAULINA – Baderegeln leicht gemacht”. In an entertaining way it explains to children …
How well does the provocative True Fruits campaign bear fruit? Are True Fruits celebrating plastic now? A brief moment of confusion before the intended aha effect that the smoothie makers’ latest advertising campaign deliberately plastered across the city with the slogan “Say ‘YES’ to plastic!” – and it provoked plenty. Cheeky little fruits, indeed. In mid-April a large-format poster adorned Germany’s cities, …
In Europe, so-called “energy recovery” or “thermal recycling” is the most widely used method of disposing of plastic waste, followed by landfill. But why do we burn this valuable raw material instead of reusing it? There is already more than enough plastic in circulation – but unfortunately not yet in the loop. flustix RECYCLED therefore aims to reduce the …
The general enthusiasm for the first large plastic catcher at sea seems dampened for the time being. Last September the latest test version of Boyan Slat’s large-scale project to free the oceans of plastic waste was launched in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch – and quite literally fell into the water. The floating tube with catching arms made of a water-permeable …
Concepts for the ‘oceans’ rubbish collection’ Part two of our series continues where the excitement left off. After Boyan Slat set off into the Pacific with the Ocean Clean Up team – we will bring you an update on that soon – the next good idea for clearing the oceans of plastic waste is already here: The Pacific Garbage Screening The …
flustix is celebrating a plastic-free Christmas this year Our waste and energy consumption rises rapidly at Christmas. The German recycling association BVSE speaks of around ten per cent more waste than the annual average. Some sources even assume around a third more. That is hardly surprising when you consider how much we consume shortly before Christmas in order to treat our loved ones …
Many consumers consider packaging superfluous for numerous products such as fruit and vegetables. A consumer survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers GmbH Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft (pwc) has shown that 87 per cent of consumers would buy package-free food if they had the opportunity. Simple arithmetic, at first glance. But who has not reached for a coffee to go, or for a packaged salad bowl, out of convenience or an urgent …
News from committees and current parliamentary initiatives. Single-use plastic is to become expensive and the recycling quota is to be doubled Petitions/committee. Source: hib – heute im bundestag no. 841 Berlin: (hib/HAU) The federal government supports efforts at European level to ban “pointless plastic packaging”. That was said by the parliamentary state secretary at the Federal Environment Ministry, Florian Pronold (SPD), during a public session of the petitions committee. …
You nominated, we tested! Two new plastic-free products carry the flustix seal For #plasticfreejuly – this year’s plastic-free month of July – flustix launched a campaign of a special kind. Back then we wanted to know from our community on Facebook and Instagram which products you consider particularly sustainable, innovative and possibly plastic-free. Your …
The Consumer Goods Forum is calling on the consumer goods industry to take a leading role in eliminating plastic pollution on land and in water. The Consumer Goods Forum (CGF) is an association of CEOs from the largest multinational corporations such as Nestlé and Procter & Gamble, but also of service providers such as KPMG and McKinsey. Through voluntary resolutions the association wants to …
flustix presents the 10 most important campaigns against plastic waste 15 September is WORLD CLEANUP DAY. On this day we want to try together to free nature of all that plastic waste and of pollution in general. And even if we are not quite so conscious of it on other days, on this one it is certainly worth …
Today, Saturday 8 September 2018, the ambitious goal of the project named ‘The Ocean CleanUp’ by Dutch inventor Boyan Slat is finally meant to come within reach. He has devised a floating system almost 700 metres long that is intended to remove plastic waste from the sea over a wide area. The structure of movable barriers, which aligns itself with the current, …
Polyester as an environmental hazard Plastic packaging, plastic toys, plastic tableware, plastic furniture, plastic appliances and even plastic clothes. You come across plastic everywhere. Wherever you look – plastic – even where you cannot see it – microplastics, liquid plastic. And what exactly is the situation with plastic in textiles? Today we want to look at how to tell plastic-free fashion from fashion containing plastic …
flustix is looking for the Plastic-Free Stars Who does not know that plastic frustration at the supermarket checkout? Today 37 per cent of all fruit and vegetables are sold wrapped in plastic. Add to that plastic pots for yoghurt, toothpaste and individually wrapped miniature sweets. Since the #plasticfreechallenge at the latest we know: living without plastic is not at all easy! Especially as plastic hides in the most unlikely …
FLUSTIX: What did you find in the Arctic, how far did the results shock you, and how bad is the scale of it? Dr Ilka Peeken: We found more microplastics in Arctic sea ice than ever before. Most of the particles, however, were smaller than a twentieth of a millimetre. In the ice samples from five different regions of the …
Kiesbye’s Kulturbierhaus in Austria is committed to reducing plastic and reports here on its journey. For a good 2 years our team has been working on gradually eliminating plastic. Countless reports about floating islands of plastic waste the size of square kilometres, sea creatures dying in agony and even microplastics in beer are shocking. My own holiday experiences, whether snorkelling …
Purchase decisions are increasingly influenced by seals, and consumers are demanding less and less plastic in packaging and products. FLUSTIX combines both, and with the seal companies can reliably guarantee their customers both at a single glance. German consumer behaviour is changing, as a representative study by KANTAR TNS (12/2017) shows: 92 per cent of …
Sustainability accounts for up to 13 per cent of revenue. That is confirmed by a new study from the communications agency Serviceplan Corporate Reputation together with the management consultancy Biesalski & Company. As part of the Sustainability Value Score (SVS), the two partners also set out a roadmap for good sustainability management. Can brands increase their value through sustainability by making a …
The pollution of our environment with plastic is advancing: the recent reports of microplastics in breast milk and in the placenta are especially alarming. If even the unborn child in the womb is exposed to the flood of plastic, how is a healthy life still supposed to be possible? Questions force themselves upon us: what do microplastics do to our children? And: …
It is not only the seas and other waters that are contaminated with microplastic particles, some of them toxic – soils are probably affected to a far greater extent, and people take the particles in with their food. In the seas the modern wonder material plastic accumulates into vast islands, trickles down to the seabed as microplastics and leads …
The world, and not only Europe, is choking on plastic waste. Headlines about the record pollution of our planet and its consequences for health appear in the media daily at the moment. Consumers are increasingly aware of the issue and policymakers have responded at European level. So let us set the weighty discussion of the problem aside for a moment and …
Have you ever thought about how best to cut down your own plastic consumption? Exactly! Stop buying single-use plastic, look out for the FLUSTIX seal on products and simply avoid plastic wherever possible. Since our plastic consumption in Germany has now reached a record high, we are making these plastic avoidance strategies our top resolutions for the …
This article was written by Christoph Schulz of Careelite. And that makes sense! Because wherever lots of presents are wrapped, lots of plastic waste is created too. Gift wrapping creates a lovely moment but is superfluous afterwards. So make sure you free your presents of unnecessary material and let your creativity run free. Christoph from Careelite has …
Do you think that products and packaging contain too much plastic? As we found out, you are fortunately not alone in that. We wanted to know exactly what Germans think of plastic and commissioned a study in September 2017. What do Germans think of plastic? Did you know, for example, that 71 per cent of Germans already …
How FLUSTIX came about After a weekly shop for my family of five I have at least one yellow recycling bag full of plastic that I have handled only once. More than half of what is in that bag is incinerated – politely described as thermal recycling. That does not feel good, especially not when I think of our children …