{"id":2398,"date":"2024-09-17T00:34:00","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T04:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=2398"},"modified":"2024-09-17T00:34:00","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T04:34:00","slug":"most-flushable-wipes-are-made-of-plastic-loo-is-a-plant-based-alternative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/?p=2398","title":{"rendered":"Most Flushable Wipes Are Made of Plastic; Loo is a Plant-Based Alternative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>In case you weren\u2019t already in the know, most baby wipes are made of plastic.<\/p>\n<p>No, we\u2019re not talking about the packaging\u2014although they\u00a0<em>do<\/em>\u00a0use their fair share of plastic packaging. The fact is that most baby wipe brands use polyester. While there\u2019s a part of me that is genuinely in awe of the science behind creating a piece of wondrously soft and soothing plastic, there\u2019s the other part of me that says, Jesus Christ, you can\u2019t even have a nappie or wipe that isn\u2019t free of some kind of polymer (and while I can\u2019t say kudos to you,\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/mario-lopez-butt-wipes-are-a-thing-and-an-absolute-clinic-on-how-not-to-design-a-cpg-product\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mario Lopez<\/a>, you can at least tip your cap to\u00a0<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dudewipes.com\/products\/medicated-dude-wipes\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dude Wipes<\/a>).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-full\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thedieline.com\/most-flushable-wipes-are-made-of-plastic-loo-is-a-plant-based-alternative\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you weren\u2019t already in the know, most baby wipes are made of plastic. No, we\u2019re not talking about the packaging\u2014although they\u00a0do\u00a0use their fair share of plastic packaging. The fact is that most baby wipe brands use polyester. While there\u2019s a part of me that is genuinely in awe of the science behind creating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[165],"tags":[1163,1164],"class_list":["post-2398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-packaging-news","tag-flushable-wipes","tag-loo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.packagingindustrynews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}