Persil Laundry detergent scoops

[northernmary]

I ordered some Persil laundry detergent scoops and I was expecting the plastic turquoise scoop instead I got an environmentally friendly cardboard Persil scoop! Quite astonished about it and I’m glad that manufactures have adopted this approach id be glad to hear you comments on this! northernmary x

 

[northernmary]

No2

 

[northernmary]

No3

 

[sudsman]

For What it cost

They sould be Stainless Steel!

 

[sudsmaster]

Henckel must be stingy

The $65 20 lb box of German Persil I bought a couple of months ago had no scoop of any sort. Unless it's buried at the bottom of the box, which I doubt.

Personally I like the little transluscent white plastic scoops that Sears and Oxyclean put in their powders. I don't throw them out; I re-use them for various custom detergent powder formulations.

I don't care much for the flimsy green plastic scoops that come with other American powders, like Tide. They barely last one box.

 

[launderess]

There is a very strong push in the EU/UK to get all sorts and sundry to go "green", and this includes consumer goods. Message is being shouted loud and clear to do more with less packaging, especially plastics. Hence the paper "scoop", found with the Persil packet.

High on the agenda is to get European/UK shoppers back into the habit of bringing their own shopping baskets, and stop shops from using plastic bags to packages customer purchases.

L.

 

[spoodles]

Bit weird that they put an ad for tablets on the scoop!

 

[rolls_rapide]

Bit weird that they put an ad for tablets on the scoop!

I wonder if they're trying to phase out powders, in favour of prepacked tablets, like they did to dishwasher products.

For what it's worth, Which? Magazine said powders cleaned better than tablets.

Cardboard scoop is similar to the Ecover version.

Now that everything else is made in China, One wonders if detergent production will be shifted too.

 

[tomturbomatic]

I will hang on to the plastic measure in my box of Persil for reuse. I have a gold plastic coffee measure that came with the Mr. Coffee machines in the 70s. I use it to measure powder TIDE HE.

 

[foraloysius]

I can't think of any powder that comes with a scoop overhere in the Netherlands. If you want a scoop you can contact the manufacturer and they will send you one for free.

 

[mielabor]

Scoops and powder...

Louis, apparently you are not a frequent visitor of eco shops. Ecover powder has a cardboard scoop in every carton that is rather similar to the Persil scoop. I always throw them away because I find them a bit clumsy to use. I prefer an ordinary table spoon.

 

[foraloysius]

Oy Theo,

I didn't know that. But to be honest I haven't used Ecover yet. I am planning on trying it, but with the amount of detergent I have at the moment that will have to wait for a while.