"Sorting is decided whether garbage is finished with just garbage or resources," until the garbage of soap making company · Lush from fruits turn into resources

A company which "sofa" makes with soap and shampoo fruits / vegetables etc in "kitchen" · Lush,Against animal experiments for cosmetics·Ethical raw material procurement·LGBT Assistance DeclarationWe are doing social activities in many fields. "Omit extra packageIn an effort called "to make containers unnecessarySolid shampooAndCream soap "ruler" aiming at zero garbage by using "melon fruit" "soap paper"In addition to recycling to reborn garbage as resources, we are also focusing on recycling. So I actually asked the staff of the team actually called "Earthcare Team" to see how inside "rubbish" was reborn as "resource" in fact rush. It was.

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First of all, you can read how the bath products and cosmetics are made from fruits / vegetables etc. by hands of 'Chef' in the rush from the following article.

3 minutes Make a soap and shampoo like "cooking" with "a chef" "kitchen" a mysterious company · "Lush kitchen" infiltration report of Lush


So, again the office floor of the rush kitchen.


The woody space here is not a counter for breaks ... ...


Detailed garbage cans are separated. "Clear Bottle" "Black Pot" is a container that is used for products of Rush, and employees bring it to the company when the rush product used at home becomes empty and put it in this separating trash box .


On the trash can is the letter "All things gathered here will be reborn as new resources".


In addition, trash coming out from the company is divided into "Kan", "PET bottle", "PET bottle cap", "Waste plastic", "Shredder", and so on.


There are places such as "bottle · glass" "dry battery · silica gel". In addition, another garbage like core of something was placed next to the garbage box.


And empty containers collected by users from the rush and trash from the company can be moved to the warehouse space on the first floor.


A shelf like this was lined with the slurry in the warehouse.


The staff is working while huge bags are in front of a small person's chest.


I take out something from the cardboard box.


Looking inside the huge bag, there were a black pot and a clear bottle that were used for the product of the rush crowded. In the rush, 100% of empty containers after use are recycled, and when the user brings five empty containers to the rushFresh face maskYou can get one. As of 2016, the recovery rate is about 25%, about one quarter of empty containers have been successfully recycled. The collected containers are sorted out here first.


In addition, there was also a receptacle filled with only the top part of the spray bottle.


Except for some shops, the soap of the rush is not in line with the shops in a subdivided manner, it is a form that sells a mass of soap massively according to the amount of customers wanted. The case that I used to harden the giant soap is shown in the photograph below. Some of the cases are washed and reused, but there are things that are reused as resources after cleaning once they are used because they are smelled.


I found a space on the back of the warehouse with a tag written as "washroom".


This place is not a kitchen of school meals ...... but a place to wash the case etc after use. Just the staff was cleaning the hose.


Before the washroom, blue cases were piled up like mountains.


What is inside is a bath agent "Bath BombThe type of. Looking at this, you can feel that "It's really made by hand ...!!"


Massage barThere was also a type of. It looks like a mold that pours chocolate etc. when making sweets.


Cleaned and sorted garbage is collected in one place.


A large amount of drum cans are used for productsGlycerinWhat was in it.


The huge blue bottle contains bath dumplings and other product residue. These residues are said to produce 100 to 150 kg per day.


Under the blending paper of "mixed plastics", a huge bottle filled with shoes etc. Those that can not be separated finely are eventually reborn as materials to be laid under the asphalt.


Since honey is used in the product, there were a large number of cans containing honey.


Plastics are divided into "valuable plastics" and "waste plastics".


On the left side is a container containing essential oil. The garbage that is divided quite exactly and orderly, surely does not receive the impression of "garbage" from the appearance as well. The words of people in the rush saying "Whether garbage is finished as just garbage or reborn as resources will be decided by sorting" was very impressive.


In addition, a large amount of garbage comes out from a rush made from fresh foods, but this seems to have been reborn as compost.


While walking around the warehouse ... ...


I found a table on which to put my luggage. Actually, this also means that the rush employee sometimes makes desk material with DIY.


I moved the place and showed the situation of the actual manufacturing site.


There are plenty of fruits such as "Where is the grocery store?" At the manufacturing site. When visiting by coverage there were lots of fruit like summer such as pineapple, mango, kiwi.


Staff who peels kiwi 's skin manually.


And from these fruits, naturally a large amount of garbage such as leather and core is born.


Banana peel · papaya peel and seed · egg shell etc etc. These change to compost that I showed earlier.



Also, a lot of lavender and rosemary were planted at the entrance of the rush kitchen, but in reality this was raised using the above compost.



Blueberries were also raised by the same compost. This time it seems that employees will eat mushrooms when summer comes.


And the desk which reused the table which was in the warehouse is kore. The character "LUSH" was sprayed with a black spray on the surface, it was endlessly fashionable.


So, I asked Mr. Kusano, who is responsible for recycling the rush, various questions about Rush's efforts.


GIGAZINE (hereinafter, G):
First of all, we will ask you about recycling efforts that Rush is doing. When did the initiative begin?

Kusano (hereinafter, Kusano):
It's about 5 years ago. At that time it was not a situation to calculate recycling figures themselves. When calculating afterwards, recycling was the highest and the era when it was not going as much as 40% in the first half. So, I became aware of the neighborhood for a while, the first year I gave a lecture called "How to sort waste" to all the people working at the rush kitchen.

G:
Did you join employee training?

Kusano:
Yes. By doing a lecture on separation for each person about three months, I asked them to understand that recycling comes out as a great number by improving sorting.

G:
It started with internal company efforts.

Kusano:
That's right. Although I was originally from England, I was recycling cups.

G:
Is recycling efforts being done in the UK different from Japan's efforts?

Kusano:
Yes. In the case of Japan, it was the beginning of "Let's manage waste generated from manufacturing". Perhaps the originality was stronger than saying "Do Britain doing it?" But later we can see that what we are doing in the UK company and what we are doing are linked, so it is sometimes I wonder if I came here.

G:
What is the department in charge of Mr. Kusano?

Kusano:
It is the Earth Care team.

G:
Earth care team. Were the Earth Care team itself possible about five years ago?

Kusano:
The Earthcare team itself has recently been made.

Rush PR · Mr. Oyama (hereinafter referred to as Oyama):
Although recycling efforts themselves existed, it was recently that functions were created as an organization.

Kusano:
Before the Earth Care team, I was in a department called a clean team.

G:
The predecessor of the Earthcase team is a clean team.

Oyama:
I agree. As the clean team became the Earth Care team, more widened thinking has come to be done. For example, we are a vegetarian company, but how much water could be reduced by not eating meat at luncheon or dinner such as conference, such as calculating a thing like that.

G:
You can calculate it as a number. Does the calculation are made public so that employees can confirm?

Kusano:
I agree. It is just about the end of last year that I began making reports on a regular basis. Now, with the liberalization of electric power, we are trying to tackle how we use renewable energy in our work. For that purpose, we do research on "how much we are using renewable energy now", collect it as monthly data, and do such work as well.

G:
Is the Earthcare team a department that thinks about "what can we do?" By analyzing current circumstances such as electricity.

Kusano:
Well, yes. To say what we can do, to the point where we propose "the next action is this in order to make it more ecologically clean earth".

G:
Is there anything specifically suggested?

Kusano:
First of all, in the direction of electric power, the shop was in a situation that was untouched. So, I am going to find a power company by themselves and look for it there.

Oyama:
Electricity liberalization was widely reported, but at that time we used factories and shops to tell the customers about the importance of choosing electricity by themselves, through campaigns. Actually there is a part completely unrelated to the product.

G:
Specifically, what kind of campaign was it?

Oyama:
When the customer comes to shopping, not only the value of the product, but also the staff of the shop will talk about that kind of story. For example, it is electricity, LGBT, an animal experiment, changing the theme at that time, then I will talk to you according to shopping. It is said that customers will think about it. We are such a little strange company, though (laugh)

Rush PR · Mr. Sasaki:
In addition, the mark against the animal experiment is also designed for all products, and it seems like "I saw this mark?" There are times when we communicate with customers.


G:
The story changes slightly, but how did Mr. Kusano enter the team in the first place?

Kusano:
In the past, "wasteful" was popular. Originally I liked seeing things from such a point of view with such a stance, such as environment and waste. It's like "Is it a waste to throw away?" It is a feeling that it came as a business. It was a chance that it happened to be coincidental, as it had an edge with introduction of acquaintance to rush.

G:
Something, it feels like it fits perfectly in life.

Kusano:
I see. Before that there are many twists and turns, but (laugh) Well, it matched to the extent that I could say it by chance. I'm not aware of myself. I was able to use my opinion properly for the duties of routine work, so things went forward to Tonkon.

G:
It is not a belief of Rush "I believe that a happy person makes a happy soap", but the work fitted with myself.

Kusano:
Already, it is true. That kind of thing was possible.

G:
Thank you very much.