Your Impact

Every bottle you don't buy adds up.

Set how much laundry you do below. The gauges show the bottles, plastic, and water you'd skip over a lifetime of switching to HeySunday. Costs less per load than Tide. Cleans the same.

Your laundry How much do you do?
Loads per week 5
151014
Years of laundry ahead 60
5306080
Bottles you don't buy
Detergent bottles, never bought
0 1,500
0bottles
About 0 lbs of plastic that never has to exist.
Every detergent bottle in your laundry room is about a third of a pound of plastic. They add up faster than you think.
1 bottle every 16 loads
Water you stop carrying home
Gallons that stay at the factory
0 gal 500 gal
0gal
That's 0 lbs of water you never have to lift.
Most of what's in a detergent bottle is water. You pay for it, carry it home, then pour it into a washer that already has plenty.
~2 oz of water per load
15,600 loads · 975 bottles · 283 lb of plastic · 267 gal of water
For the skeptics

The math, in plain English.

The numbers behind the dials, with sources. Based on how people actually pour detergent, not what the back of the bottle says.

1
A standard 50 oz Tide bottle
50 fl oz
Not the giant jug. The everyday size that fits on the laundry shelf. Empty, it's about a third of a pound of plastic.
SourceTide Original 50 fl oz on tide.com.
2
What Tide says it does
32 loads
Tide rates the 50 oz bottle at 32 loads, if you pour to the line on the cap. That's about 1.5 ounces per load.
SourceThe dosing instructions on the back of the bottle.
3
What most people actually pour The key number
about 2× that
Most people pour about twice what the cap line shows. P&G has been trying to fix this for years. Smaller cap lines. "Just a tablespoon" ads. New cap shapes. It mostly hasn't worked. If your last bottle ran out faster than the label said, this is why.
4
So a bottle really lasts
about 16 loads
Pour twice the cap line and 32 loads on the label becomes 16 in your laundry room. That's how often you actually finish a bottle.
SourceMath from #2 and #3.
5
How much of a bottle is water
60–90%
Most liquid detergent runs 60% to 90% water by weight. The bottle on this page is set to 70%, the middle of that range.
SourceYale Climate Connections (2023); Sierra Club, Ask Mr. Green; American Cleaning Institute formulation references.
6
How many bottles get recycled
about 30%
Only about 30% of plastic detergent bottles in the US actually get recycled. The other 70% end up in landfills or burned. The numbers above count bottles you don't buy in the first place.
The math, line by line
# The dials update live when you move a slider.
your lifetime loads  = loads per week × 52 × years
bottles in your life = 32 label loads ÷ 2.0 real pour = 16 loads per bottle
bottles you skip     = lifetime loads ÷ 16
plastic you skip     = bottles × 0.29 lb of plastic each
water in the bottle  = lifetime loads × 2.2 oz of water
gallons              = oz of water ÷ 128

These are rough numbers for one person, not a lab study. People pour different amounts, but 2× the label is a fair middle estimate (some studies say more). If your laundry looks different, move the sliders above.

The bottle in your laundry room

You've been paying to carry water home.

Walk through your laundry aisle. Wall after wall of plastic bottles, mostly full of water. You pay for it. You lift it into the cart. You carry it to the car. You haul it up the stairs to the laundry room. Then you pour it into a washing machine that fills itself with 20 more gallons.

And odds are you're pouring twice what the cap says. Most people do. It's why your last bottle ran out faster than the label promised it would.

Liquid detergent is dry detergent that somebody added water to first, packed in a plastic bottle, then sent on a truck to your store.
Liquid
Detergent
70%water
30%everything else
Wait, why is it liquid?

There's no real reason to buy liquid detergent.

The bottle is mostly water. 60% to 90% of it, depending on the brand. You're paying to carry tap water home.

Your washing machine already fills itself with 15 to 40 gallons every load. It doesn't need the bottle to bring more. The only thing the bottle really does is make you lift it, store it, and pour too much of it.

1

You're mostly carrying water. About 70% of the bottle's weight is just tap water with some dye and perfume.

2

You're using twice what the bottle says. The cap line is 1.5 oz. Most people pour closer to 3. That's why the bottle empties twice as fast as it should.

3

Your washer doesn't notice the difference. A sheet dissolves in seconds. Same clean. No cap to overdo.

One load, side by side

Cheaper per load. Same clean.

What one load actually costs you. Real-world numbers, not what the label promises.

Your current bottle

50 oz Tide

Cost per load
~$0.40 after over-pouring
How long it lasts
About 16 loads, not the 32 on the label
Plastic each load
A new bottle in the trash every 16 loads
Water each load
About 2 oz of water you didn't need
After it's empty
Only about 30% of these bottles actually get recycled
HeySunday

60 sheets per pack

Cost per load
$0.25 on Subscribe & Save — cheaper than Tide
How long it lasts
60 loads, one sheet at a time, no overpour
Plastic each load
No bottle. Paper pack. (The sheet has a tiny film inside that dissolves in the wash.)
Water each load
0 oz. Your washer brings its own.
After it's empty
The pack goes in the paper bin
Your routine, simpler

One sheet. In the washer. Done.

You do laundry exactly the same way. You just stop dragging jugs of water home and stop pouring more soap than you need.

No bottle
Nothing heavy to lift
Right amount every time
Plant-based formula
Works in any washer
Hot or cold

The easiest switch in your house.

Cheaper per load than Tide. Cleans the same. About a thousand fewer bottles to lift, lug, and throw out over a lifetime of laundry.

~975
bottles you don't buy
~270 gal
water you don't carry