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Associated Press
7 days ago
- Business
- Associated Press
Nice-Pak Reaches Donation Milestone of $7 Million in Products To Support Communities in Need
Partnership with Good360 ensures wipes are quickly deployed for disaster recovery 'Our work with Good360 has reached an important milestone, and our long-term partnership is a reminder of the critical role wipes play in disaster response.'— Deb Fillis Ryba PEARL RIVER, NY, UNITED STATES, June 3, 2025 / / -- Nice-Pak, a leading provider of wet-wipe solutions for retailers and brand owners, today announced it has reached an important milestone—over $7 million worth of personal care and surface wet wipes donated to nonprofits, including disaster relief and recovery efforts. This was achieved through its ongoing partnership with Good360, a global leader in product philanthropy and purposeful giving. Celebrating Eight Years of Impact with Good360 'Wipes are one of the top-requested items from our nonprofit partners because they help alleviate hygiene insecurity and the health risks that come after a natural disaster,' said Morgan Loomis, Vice President, Disaster Response and Recovery, Good360. 'Nice-Pak has been instrumental in providing convenient and portable hygiene to so many who have been affected by fires, hurricanes and other disasters over the past eight years of our partnership.' According to Good360, the donated wipes—valued at $7 million in fair-market terms—have positively impacted more than a million lives. Since the partnership began, Nice-Pak's products have been distributed to over 700 nonprofits and have supported recovery efforts across over 30 different disaster sites, including the Southern California wildfires and Hurricane Helene flooding in the Southeast, as well as regions affected by conflict, such as Ukraine and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Wet wipes play an essential role in recovery, providing cleaning, disinfecting and hand hygiene when clean water is scarce. 'Our work with Good360 has reached an important milestone, and our long-term partnership is a reminder of the critical role wipes play in disaster response,' said Deb Fillis Ryba, Global Director of Environmental and Social Impact at Nice-Pak. 'Good360 is the ideal partner to help get our products quickly into the hands of those who need them most, and we are honored to support their mission.' In 2021, Nice-Pak became a Resilient-Response partner with Good 360 to focus on proactive donations so that relief organizations can be prepared before disaster strikes. Nice-Pak donations are based on a quarterly needs assessment, which enables Good360 to pre-position the product with its extensive network of nonprofits. With donations already on site at regional distribution hubs, Nice-Pak wipes are quickly deployed to areas of need. Nice-Pak began its donation efforts in 2017 with shipments supporting recovery from Hurricanes Irma and Maria. Since then, Good360 has distributed Nice-Pak wipes to more than 700 nonprofit organizations across the U.S. and around the world—delivering the right products to the right people at the right time. About Nice-Pak Headquartered in Pearl River, NY, Nice-Pak is the go-to solutions partner for surface and skin hygiene for both private label and brand owners, providing expertise in sourcing, formulation, consumer marketing and insights. Over the years, the company introduced numerous innovations in wet-wipe products for consumer, healthcare, foodservice and commercial markets. About Good360 Good360 closes the need-gap by partnering with socially responsible companies to source essential donated goods and distribute them through a network of more than 100,000 vetted nonprofits. In doing so, Good360 supports communities in crisis, empowers nonprofit partners and reduces landfill waste. To date, Good360 has distributed more than $21 billion in donated goods, thanks to generous donors like Nice-Pak. Good360 is a registered 501(c)(3) organization. Learn more at Diana Hatton Nice-Pak Products, Inc. [email protected] Legal Disclaimer: EIN Presswire provides this news content 'as is' without warranty of any kind. We do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, content, images, videos, licenses, completeness, legality, or reliability of the information contained in this article. If you have any complaints or copyright issues related to this article, kindly contact the author above.
Yahoo
28-05-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
$4.5bn wasted while Aussies go without
While Aussies go without, big companies are throwing away essentials that could be redirected to people in need, major charities say. Australia wastes $4.5bn worth of new, unsold goods, including hygiene products, clothing and homewares, every year, a Good360 report reveals. Despite young families struggling amid cost-of-living pressures, personal hygiene items, cleaning supplies and infant products are among those growing fastest in the near $5bn waste pile. These products have increased waste by 33 per cent in just three years despite being necessities. One of the charities calling for goods to be redirected is Little Wings, which uses items donated through Good360 to help seriously ill children and their families in rural and regional areas. Little Wings chief executive Clare Pearson said families of sick children desperately needed aid while companies were just throwing out usable goods. 'When you're caring for a sick child, for us, from our perspective, is that families go without in so many ways just trying to conserve their finances," Ms Pearson told NewsWire. 'To have some of these resources redirected to families who really cherish and desperately need them … it's really a game changer for so many families.' Ms Pearson said it was 'really upsetting' that companies were throwing away usable goods despite recent extreme weather events worsening families' situations. 'With the recent floods, it's been really devastating. We've seen so many of our families lose everything from their homes to their cars to their businesses,' Ms Pearson said. 'These are families that are already struggling. They're caring for a seriously ill child over long periods of time. 'They're not as resilient, you know, the tank is empty.' Little Wings not only provides families with essentials but gives sick children and their loved ones some creature comforts that make difficult situations a little more bearable. 'When you have cancer, being gifted a beautiful teddy bear or a beautiful doll is a real comfort and a distraction for little people,' Ms Pearson said. 'As much as it is a gift and a distraction, it's just a beautiful way to actually support the treatment they're going through. 'These little comforts, they make a big impact and they stick with you.' The pile of wasted unsold retail goods has increased by 17 per cent since 2021 and has now reached $2.9bn, in addition to another $1.5bn from online shopping returns, according to the research led by Deloitte Access Economics. Good360 aims to address this waste by reallocating the goods to charities that desperately need them through their technology marketplace. 'We are seeing rising levels of waste on one side, and record levels of need on the other,' Good360 Australia founder and managing director Alison Covington told NewsWire. 'Around 85 per cent of charities say that the need for going on in the next 12 months is bigger than they've ever seen before and around more than 50 per cent of those charities have seen people come to them that haven't come and asked for help before. '$4.5bn of goods are wasted and charities have an unmet need that they can't keep up with.' Ms Covington said Good360 focused on an efficient allocation of resources so charities get what they actually need. 'It's not bits and pieces … it's also brands that you recognise that are the same as what you could do if you could afford to buy them,' she said. 'You're not being humiliated when you have to receive these goods. And that's really important if you put yourself in the shoes of the person who needs help in a challenging time.' Although Good360 is celebrating its 10 year anniversary, waste just seems to keep rising. 'No matter how hard I'm working, the waste is getting bigger and the demand is getting bigger,' Ms Covington said. 'On one side, I'm so thrilled that we've helped five million Australians. I say to the team, what if? What if we didn't do this? 'I'm calling on more Australians to join us and help solve this issue because … it just doesn't seem to be the right thing that's happening here when we can put all of these beautiful goods into the hands of people who need them.' Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data
The Advertiser
28-05-2025
- Business
- The Advertiser
Push to recover billions wasted in unsold goods
Small luxuries such as electric blankets and Lego can quickly fall off the shopping lists of families with seriously sick kids who are struggling with the rising cost of living, steep medical bills and caring responsibilities. But that doesn't mean they have to go without. Little Wings charity flies thousands of kids from the bush living with cancer, burns and other conditions to life-saving medical treatment each year for free thanks to volunteers, but their help doesn't stop there. Families receive packages of essentials and gifts designed to ease the emotional and financial stress of commuting from the regions to major hospitals. "Sometimes, just turning up with a parcel of personal products and a small gift just to say we see you and you're doing a great job, that changes someone's day," Little Wings chief executive Clare Pearson told AAP. "When you're really struggling, these little things are game changers for people". Demand for their help has soared fourfold in recent years which is why it was upsetting to learn a $4.5 billion worth of retail stock becomes waste each year, even though it could go to charity. "It's heartbreaking, isn't it?" Ms Pearson said. "Not only for the families, but for the planet." Some $2.9 billion worth of unsold goods from retailers are thrown out each year while more than $1.5 billion worth of online shopping returns are discarded, according to a Deloitte Access Economics report for not-for-profit Good360. It's a 17 per cent jump since 2021, despite continual charity demand for clothing, homewares, hygiene products and other essentials. Little Wings is among more than 4500 schools and charities that Good360 supports, providing unsold products from retailers such as IKEA, Harvey Norman, Colgate and Nestle. "The need has never been greater," the organisation's Australian managing director Alison Covington said. "People are so focused on food, but I always talk about as individuals we need more than food. "I ask you to think about what you used since the moment you woke up in your warm bed." Ms Covington believes a growing amount of stock is going to waste due to tough economic times, as fewer sales means more products are left on shelves and binned. While the retailers her organisation works with are grateful for stock being taken off their hands while also doing the right thing, it can be an uphill battle for the not-for-profit. Businesses responses to their customers and the feedback from some who don't work with Good360 is that shoppers aren't asking to know what happens to unsold products in the same way they demand recycling schemes. "Everybody's been asked to bring back their goods and recycle them, but first we all need to be asking ourselves, what happened if this didn't sell?" Ms Covington said. "There's nothing about saying, did the business actually sell through their clothing and what are they doing about it? I'd like to see more about the reporting of what happened to all the items." While Ms Covington is focused on advocating to businesses and government for funding, she says individual shoppers can vote with their feet. Small luxuries such as electric blankets and Lego can quickly fall off the shopping lists of families with seriously sick kids who are struggling with the rising cost of living, steep medical bills and caring responsibilities. But that doesn't mean they have to go without. Little Wings charity flies thousands of kids from the bush living with cancer, burns and other conditions to life-saving medical treatment each year for free thanks to volunteers, but their help doesn't stop there. Families receive packages of essentials and gifts designed to ease the emotional and financial stress of commuting from the regions to major hospitals. "Sometimes, just turning up with a parcel of personal products and a small gift just to say we see you and you're doing a great job, that changes someone's day," Little Wings chief executive Clare Pearson told AAP. "When you're really struggling, these little things are game changers for people". Demand for their help has soared fourfold in recent years which is why it was upsetting to learn a $4.5 billion worth of retail stock becomes waste each year, even though it could go to charity. "It's heartbreaking, isn't it?" Ms Pearson said. "Not only for the families, but for the planet." Some $2.9 billion worth of unsold goods from retailers are thrown out each year while more than $1.5 billion worth of online shopping returns are discarded, according to a Deloitte Access Economics report for not-for-profit Good360. It's a 17 per cent jump since 2021, despite continual charity demand for clothing, homewares, hygiene products and other essentials. Little Wings is among more than 4500 schools and charities that Good360 supports, providing unsold products from retailers such as IKEA, Harvey Norman, Colgate and Nestle. "The need has never been greater," the organisation's Australian managing director Alison Covington said. "People are so focused on food, but I always talk about as individuals we need more than food. "I ask you to think about what you used since the moment you woke up in your warm bed." Ms Covington believes a growing amount of stock is going to waste due to tough economic times, as fewer sales means more products are left on shelves and binned. While the retailers her organisation works with are grateful for stock being taken off their hands while also doing the right thing, it can be an uphill battle for the not-for-profit. Businesses responses to their customers and the feedback from some who don't work with Good360 is that shoppers aren't asking to know what happens to unsold products in the same way they demand recycling schemes. "Everybody's been asked to bring back their goods and recycle them, but first we all need to be asking ourselves, what happened if this didn't sell?" Ms Covington said. "There's nothing about saying, did the business actually sell through their clothing and what are they doing about it? I'd like to see more about the reporting of what happened to all the items." While Ms Covington is focused on advocating to businesses and government for funding, she says individual shoppers can vote with their feet. Small luxuries such as electric blankets and Lego can quickly fall off the shopping lists of families with seriously sick kids who are struggling with the rising cost of living, steep medical bills and caring responsibilities. But that doesn't mean they have to go without. Little Wings charity flies thousands of kids from the bush living with cancer, burns and other conditions to life-saving medical treatment each year for free thanks to volunteers, but their help doesn't stop there. Families receive packages of essentials and gifts designed to ease the emotional and financial stress of commuting from the regions to major hospitals. "Sometimes, just turning up with a parcel of personal products and a small gift just to say we see you and you're doing a great job, that changes someone's day," Little Wings chief executive Clare Pearson told AAP. "When you're really struggling, these little things are game changers for people". Demand for their help has soared fourfold in recent years which is why it was upsetting to learn a $4.5 billion worth of retail stock becomes waste each year, even though it could go to charity. "It's heartbreaking, isn't it?" Ms Pearson said. "Not only for the families, but for the planet." Some $2.9 billion worth of unsold goods from retailers are thrown out each year while more than $1.5 billion worth of online shopping returns are discarded, according to a Deloitte Access Economics report for not-for-profit Good360. It's a 17 per cent jump since 2021, despite continual charity demand for clothing, homewares, hygiene products and other essentials. Little Wings is among more than 4500 schools and charities that Good360 supports, providing unsold products from retailers such as IKEA, Harvey Norman, Colgate and Nestle. "The need has never been greater," the organisation's Australian managing director Alison Covington said. "People are so focused on food, but I always talk about as individuals we need more than food. "I ask you to think about what you used since the moment you woke up in your warm bed." Ms Covington believes a growing amount of stock is going to waste due to tough economic times, as fewer sales means more products are left on shelves and binned. While the retailers her organisation works with are grateful for stock being taken off their hands while also doing the right thing, it can be an uphill battle for the not-for-profit. Businesses responses to their customers and the feedback from some who don't work with Good360 is that shoppers aren't asking to know what happens to unsold products in the same way they demand recycling schemes. "Everybody's been asked to bring back their goods and recycle them, but first we all need to be asking ourselves, what happened if this didn't sell?" Ms Covington said. "There's nothing about saying, did the business actually sell through their clothing and what are they doing about it? I'd like to see more about the reporting of what happened to all the items." While Ms Covington is focused on advocating to businesses and government for funding, she says individual shoppers can vote with their feet. Small luxuries such as electric blankets and Lego can quickly fall off the shopping lists of families with seriously sick kids who are struggling with the rising cost of living, steep medical bills and caring responsibilities. But that doesn't mean they have to go without. Little Wings charity flies thousands of kids from the bush living with cancer, burns and other conditions to life-saving medical treatment each year for free thanks to volunteers, but their help doesn't stop there. Families receive packages of essentials and gifts designed to ease the emotional and financial stress of commuting from the regions to major hospitals. "Sometimes, just turning up with a parcel of personal products and a small gift just to say we see you and you're doing a great job, that changes someone's day," Little Wings chief executive Clare Pearson told AAP. "When you're really struggling, these little things are game changers for people". Demand for their help has soared fourfold in recent years which is why it was upsetting to learn a $4.5 billion worth of retail stock becomes waste each year, even though it could go to charity. "It's heartbreaking, isn't it?" Ms Pearson said. "Not only for the families, but for the planet." Some $2.9 billion worth of unsold goods from retailers are thrown out each year while more than $1.5 billion worth of online shopping returns are discarded, according to a Deloitte Access Economics report for not-for-profit Good360. It's a 17 per cent jump since 2021, despite continual charity demand for clothing, homewares, hygiene products and other essentials. Little Wings is among more than 4500 schools and charities that Good360 supports, providing unsold products from retailers such as IKEA, Harvey Norman, Colgate and Nestle. "The need has never been greater," the organisation's Australian managing director Alison Covington said. "People are so focused on food, but I always talk about as individuals we need more than food. "I ask you to think about what you used since the moment you woke up in your warm bed." Ms Covington believes a growing amount of stock is going to waste due to tough economic times, as fewer sales means more products are left on shelves and binned. While the retailers her organisation works with are grateful for stock being taken off their hands while also doing the right thing, it can be an uphill battle for the not-for-profit. Businesses responses to their customers and the feedback from some who don't work with Good360 is that shoppers aren't asking to know what happens to unsold products in the same way they demand recycling schemes. "Everybody's been asked to bring back their goods and recycle them, but first we all need to be asking ourselves, what happened if this didn't sell?" Ms Covington said. "There's nothing about saying, did the business actually sell through their clothing and what are they doing about it? I'd like to see more about the reporting of what happened to all the items." While Ms Covington is focused on advocating to businesses and government for funding, she says individual shoppers can vote with their feet.
The Age
28-05-2025
- Business
- The Age
Thinking of returning an online purchase? It might end up in landfill
An estimated $1.5 billion worth of brand-new online shopping purchases ended up in Australian landfills after customers returned them in 2024, according to a report published by waste redistribution charity Good360 on Thursday. Data featured in the report and analysed by Deloitte shows Australia is throwing out $4.5 billion in unsold goods every year, a 79 per cent increase from the $2.5 billion wasted in 2021, associated with a rise in returns of online purchases. According to annual data published by Australia Post, more Australian households (9.8 million) shopped online in 2024 than in any other year. Of these households, 18 per cent made an online purchase at least once a week. The Good360 report said an estimated 30 per cent of all clothing returned after being bought online was not resold, and most of these items ended up as waste. While most electronics are resold or refurbished after being returned online, estimates for the number of groceries and furniture that end up in landfills despite being new are far higher, with virtually all food and grocery items wasted. This is despite the pressure on landfills in major Australian cities, including Sydney, which is on track to run out of landfill space by 2030 and which had the greatest volume of online shopping orders by volume per capita in 2024. Victoria is forecast to begin running out of landfill capacity by the mid-2030s. In its 10 years of operating, Good360 has redistributed 43.7 million brand-new items to more than 4.8 million people across a network of 4800 charities and disadvantaged schools. More than one in eight Australians live in poverty and are in need of household goods, with particular demand for hygiene products, clothing, furniture and educational supplies. Companies that donate goods to Good360 include Harvey Norman, Colgate, Big W, Nike and Optus.
Sydney Morning Herald
28-05-2025
- Business
- Sydney Morning Herald
Thinking of returning an online purchase? It might end up in landfill
An estimated $1.5 billion worth of brand-new online shopping purchases ended up in Australian landfills after customers returned them in 2024, according to a report published by waste redistribution charity Good360 on Thursday. Data featured in the report and analysed by Deloitte shows Australia is throwing out $4.5 billion in unsold goods every year, a 79 per cent increase from the $2.5 billion wasted in 2021, associated with a rise in returns of online purchases. According to annual data published by Australia Post, more Australian households (9.8 million) shopped online in 2024 than in any other year. Of these households, 18 per cent made an online purchase at least once a week. The Good360 report said an estimated 30 per cent of all clothing returned after being bought online was not resold, and most of these items ended up as waste. While most electronics are resold or refurbished after being returned online, estimates for the number of groceries and furniture that end up in landfills despite being new are far higher, with virtually all food and grocery items wasted. This is despite the pressure on landfills in major Australian cities, including Sydney, which is on track to run out of landfill space by 2030 and which had the greatest volume of online shopping orders by volume per capita in 2024. Victoria is forecast to begin running out of landfill capacity by the mid-2030s. In its 10 years of operating, Good360 has redistributed 43.7 million brand-new items to more than 4.8 million people across a network of 4800 charities and disadvantaged schools. More than one in eight Australians live in poverty and are in need of household goods, with particular demand for hygiene products, clothing, furniture and educational supplies. Companies that donate goods to Good360 include Harvey Norman, Colgate, Big W, Nike and Optus.
