Recently announced by TerraCycle^®, sponsor of the recycling program that St. Thomas parishioners have been participating in,

Loop is a new way to shop, offering about 300 items — from Tide detergent to Pantene shampoo, Häagen-Dazs ice cream to Crest mouthwash — all in reusable packaging. After using the products, customers put the empty containers in a Loop tote on their doorstep. The containers are then picked up by a delivery service, cleaned and refilled, and shipped out to consumers again.

In other words, it’s the 21st century milk man — here to save the world from single-use plastics.

Wiener-Bronner, Danielle. Video by Bronte Lord, Bryce Urbany, Frank Fenimore and Jenny Marc 2019, January 24.  How to solve the world's plastics problem: Bring back the milk man. Retrieved from  https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2019/01/business/loop-reusable-packaging-mission-ahead/index.html