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VIDEO: San Mateo Opens First Green Soap-Filling Station

Customers can fill up on on organic hand soap, earth-friendly dish soap, and biodegradable laundry detergent at the San Mateo filling station.

San Mateo-based Reach and Teach has partnered with Green11, a Noe-Valley San Francisco based company and one of the pioneers in making earth-friendly products available in bulk, to bring the Peninsula its first green filling station.

Customers can bring in their own containers, or purchase reusable ones, and fill them up with earth-friendly soaps and laundry detergent.

Reach And Teach transforms the world through teachable moments with books, music, toys, gifts, fair-trade crafts, and other products that promote peacemaking, gender equality, and sustainable living. The company was founded in 2004 and opened its first brick-and-mortar shop in San Mateo in 2010.

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Reach And Teach
178 South Blvd.
San Mateo, CA 94402

 

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