BYOB: Bring Your OLD Bottles
Item #14 on tomorrow’s Environment & Transportation Committee agenda.
What do you think, London? Are you ready to drink water out of a recycled bleach bottle?
B.Y.O.B.
Bring Your Old Bottles
“Saving the planet, one bottle at a time”The world is changing, it’s turning green.
The brilliance of our B.Y.0.B marketing plan is its SIMPLICITY
We can make Green, SIMPLE.Mayor Anne Marie DeCicco-Best , This is our plan.
Instead of tossing household cleaning and laundry bottles into the curbside recycling box, or the garbage can, constituents simply bring them in to one of our B.Y.O.B. outlets and our technicians will sanitize and refill them with any one of hundreds of original products at factory direct prices.
What’s in it for the City of London?
- You will reduce your annual budget on garbage disposal and recycling. We will drastically reduce the amount of plastic that ends up in recycling and landfills by millions of pounds annually. (One plastic bottle can be refilled up to 25 times according to the American Plastics Assoc.)( One ton of plastic equals one ton of oil and natural gas.)
- You will be creating thousands of good paying jobs in a turbulent economy, Our ambitious plan includes opening 600 outlets in North America over the next 3-4 years. Our initial density survey shows we will need to provide one location for every 100k people.
What do we require from the City of London?
You will reduce your annual budget on garbage disposal and recycling. We will A signed letter of endorsement from mayor DeCicco-Best, in combination with other mayors, will greatly aid in our attempt to secure product from manufacturers in bulk containers, as well serving as a letter of intent for prospective financial institutions or investors.
Thank you for your support.
Regards,
Scott Freeman
Aug.12 2009172 Centre St. Box 460
Dutton, ON
NOL-1JObringyouroldbottles@gmail.com
jscottfreeman@hotmail.com
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What do you think , London.
Bring your old bottles, can only refill returned bottles with ORIGINAL PRODUCT, not drinking water or anything else!
If you bring in a Tide bottle to be refilled, you get TIDE, which we have stocked in bulk in a secure location.
Returned bottles will be inspected if the original labeling is not intact, or the bottle is damaged in any way, it will be shredded on site.
Scott Freeman
Scott,
Nice of you to provide that clarification since your letter that was on the ETC agenda wasn’t quite clear enough.
In principle, I’m solidly in favour of things like this. But I’d need to know more specifics before endorsing it.
Have you had any actual discussions with manufacturers yet? If so, what’s been their reaction with respect to providing product at reduced cost?
What are you asking of the City? IOW, what kind of endorsement are you after? Simply a signed letter stating the City’s support, in principle? Or are you after something more specific, like financial support of some kind?
Again, thanks for contributing to FMBS.
Greg,
We have been been in conversation with all 15 of the household cleaning and fabric care manufacturers and half of them are eager, the rest are bogged down in corporate “buck passing”. Our next targets include poll chemicals, personal products, farm chemicals and automotive fluids. Our secondary goal is to change the public’s perseption of green products reduced effectiveness.
As far as asking for financial help from any municipality, we have not, and we are only asking for a letter of endorsement of our plan in principal, as you say. I believe our ambitious goal of 1200 stores across North America would be bogged down in the politics and strings of municipal cash infusions.
Suppliers profits are actually higher on bulk sales. The cost of bottling, storing, packaging and shipping our portion of their sales is gone.
Scott Freeman