Dear consumers: SUSY checks on packs! With SUSY, evaluating the sustainability of packaging is as easy as comparing prices. Get your own impression of how serious manufacturers and retailers are about making their packaging sustainable! Here you can find out how many stars out of a possible 5 in the SUSY Score for evaluating holistic sustainability the packaging used in our test products achieved. For this purpose, we always test 8 products of one category. Feel free to let us know which category you would like us to “put under the microscope”. Your SUSY Team!
Category shower gels
SUSY CHECKS ON PACKS! OUR SUSY SCORE EVALUATES THE INTEGRATED SUSTAINABILITY OF PACKAGING – SHOWER GELS (TEST 04/2023).
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| Product | BALEA PFLEGENDES DUSCHGEL | FROSCH SENSITIV DUSCHE | DOVE PFLEGEDUSCHE | NIVEA PFLEGEDUSCHE | FA PFLEGENDE DUSCHCREME | NIVEA NATURE FRESH PFLEGEDUSCHE | KNEIPP AROMA PFLEGEDUSCHE | LAVERA SENSITIV PFLEGEDUSCHE | BEBE SOFT SHOWER CREAM | SEBA MED FRISCHE DUSCHE | WELEDA SCHÖNHEITSDUSCHE |
| Content | 250 ml | 300 ml | 250 ml | 250 ml | 250 ml | 300 ml | 200 ml | 250 ml | 250 ml | 200 ml | 200 ml |
| GTIN | 4010355080615 | 4001499959837 | 8710447169285 | 4005900933232 | 4015100427448 | 855760100072 | 4008233114781 | 4021457648412 | 3574661384382 | 4103040797018 | 4001638088442 |
| SUSY-SCORE |  |  | |  |  | | | | | | |
| MATERIAL | -4.93 | -8,00 | -3.28 | -3.71 | -18.66 | -18,84 | -17.62 | -12,53 | -21,64 | -16.90 | -22,26 |
| Functionality | 78,81 | 78,81 | 76,57 | 78.81 | 78.81 | 76,57 | 72,25 | 76,57 | 78.81 | 77.88 | 70,77 |
| Declaration | 24,81 | 18,60 | 18.60 | 24,81 | 18.60 | 18,60 | 18.60 | 17,22 | 17,72 | 17,72 | 17.72 |
| Circularity | 55,51 | 55,55 | 51,94 | 50,74 | 50,37 | 50,90 | 62,13 | 53,09 | 50,76 | 54,70 | 53,45 |
| TOTAL SCORE | 154,19 | 144,95 | 143.83 | 150,64 | 129,12 | 127,23 | 135,35 | 134,35 | 125,65 | 133.40 | 119.67 |
| PRODUKTBILD | | | | | | | | |
| PRODUKT | BALEA PFLEGENDES DUSCHGEL | DOVE PFLEGEDUSCHE | NIVEA PFLEGEDUSCHE | FA PFLEGENDE DUSCHCREME | KNEIPP AROMA PFLEGEDUSCHE | BEBE SOFT SHOWER CREAM | SEBA MED FRISCHE DUSCHE | WELEDA SCHÖNHEITSDUSCHE |
| INHALT | 250 ml | 250 ml | 250 ml | 250 ml | 200 ml | 250 ml | 200 ml | 200 ml |
| GTIN | 4010355080615 | 8710447169285 | 4005900933232 | 4015100427448 | 4008233114781 | 3574661384382 | 4103040797018 | 4001638088442 |
| SUSY-SCORE | | | | | | | | |
| MATERIAL | -4.93 | -3.28 | -3.71 | -18.66 | -17.62 | -21,64 | -16.90 | -22,26 |
| FUNKTIONALITÄT | 78,81 | 76,57 | 78.81 | 78.81 | 72,25 | 78.81 | 77.88 | 70,77 |
| DEKLARATION | 24,81 | 18.60 | 24,81 | 18.60 | 18.60 | 17,72 | 17,72 | 17.72 |
| KREISLAUFFÄHIGKEIT | 55,51 | 51,94 | 50,74 | 50,37 | 62,13 | 50,76 | 54,70 | 53,45 |
| TOTAL SCORE | 154,19 | 143.83 | 150,64 | 129,12 | 135,35 | 125,65 | 133.40 | 119.67 |
| PRODUKTBILD |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| PRODUKT | LINDT LINDOR | FERRERO MON CHERI | STORCK MERCI | MILKA PRALINÉS | REWE LIKÖR KIRSCHEN | MARS CELEBRATIONS | NESTLÉ AFTER EIGHT | GUYLIAN SEASHELLS |
| GEWICHT | 325 g | 157 g | 250 g | 110 g | 250 g | 186 g | 200 g | 250 g |
| GTIN | 4000539097805 | 4008400102528 | 4014400901412 | 7622210598011 | 4337256434393 | 5000159500258 | 5000189363069 | 5410976180067 |
| SUSY-SCORE |  |  |  | | | | | |
| MATERIAL | -18,90 | -27,95 | -24,23 | -31,85 | -17,68 | -16,38 | -15,89 | -26,92 |
| KREISLAUFFÄHIGKEIT | 53,27 | 28,83 | 52,06 | 49,74 | 43,89 | 43,74 | 38,53 | 81,98 |
| FUNKTIONALITÄT | 46,59 | 45,21 | 38,90 | 28,95 | 40,02 | 53,85 | 48,90 | 50,17 |
| DEKLARATION | 2,57 | 2,57 | 5,67 | 5,94 | 5,06 | 1,69 | 10,44 | 12,20 |
| TOTAL | 83,53 | 48,66 | 72,40 | 52,77 | 71,29 | 82,89 | 81,98 | 83,99 |
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SUSTAINABILITY MYTHS
SUSY BRINGS LIGHT
TO THEM
Sustainability myths are widespread and often misleading. These myths often create a false image about sustainability and environmental issues. As a consumer, you may make the wrong decision when evaluating packaging and choosing your products because you believe you are doin the right thing. We will put an end to thi and will be happy to inform you!
Both unpackaged and shrink-wrapped cucumbers cause emissions during production, leaving a carbon footprint. The cucumbers protected by foil are simply more durable, so they end up less in the garbage. So that makes them more sustainable than unpackaged pickles. And that’s why most organic cucumbers are wrapped in foil.
Recyclability
The materials used in the packaging should be as recyclable as possible. Glass, for example, is well suited because glass can be 100 percent recycled indefinitely in a closed cycle. And the Germans are particularly good at glass recycling: Over 84% of the glass used ends up in recycling.
On the other hand, a lot of energy is used for the production of glass and the transport of glass also causes a lot of CO2 pollution.
The packaging should be clearly marked as to what it consists of and what is to be separated and how. Of course, the pack should ideally be tested by SUSY and bear the SUSY sustainability score.
In most cases, packaging is used for hygiene and product protection, and is therefore often very useful.
Material Mix
First of all, sustainable packaging should not consist of too many different materials. The unfortunately often typical mix of plastic, paper and aluminum causes problems in recycling because the three materials have to be laboriously separated from each other.
In principle, you can dispose of all waste that originally came from an animal or a plant in the organic waste bin. So also egg shells or plant residues from the garden or citrus fruit peels. Only animal feces should not be put in the organic waste bin. And please don’t put the supposedly “compostable” organic waste bags in the organic bin either, because unfortunately these things don’t decompose during the roughly three-week fermentation/post-rotting in the biogas plant and have to be laboriously sorted out. It is best to use paper bags or newspaper to collect your organic waste. Incidentally, energy and heat are generated from the organic waste or compost is made for agriculture.
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Source: https://www.3sat.de/gesellschaft/politik-und-gesellschaft/das-geschaeft-mit-der-nachhaltigkeit-102.html
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