SUSY checks on PACKS

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

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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!

Thats why foiling a cucumber is sustainable

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.

What constitutes good, sustainable packaging. Part 2

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.

What constitutes good, sustainable packaging. Part 3

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.

What constitutes good, sustainable packaging. Part 1

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.

What is organic, but does not belong in the organic bin

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.