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Kids hack devices to remind their parents to ditch single-use plastics

Third party trackers — aka cookies — are on their way out. Before they disappear, soap brand Gelo decided to put them to good use with its Parent Track. 

By going to this page on a parent's laptop or phone, kids cause a cookie to be saved by the browser. This ensures that their adult is bombarded with ads wherever they go, admonishing them to ditch single-use plastics, and pointing out that their kids are in on the act.

Gelo sells soap refill pods that customers drop in a reusable bottle filled with water. By its own account, refills have prevented millions of plastic soap bottles from entering waste streams. (Aptly, the campaign was developed by Mischief.)

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Earlier this week, we featured Ocean Bottle's econfessions, encouraging people to fess up to their not-so-green, guilty habits. While that was all about removing shame from the equation, Gelo's Parent Tracker is clearly all about making people feel more guilty. Using kids to do so is a smart move. After all, they'll inherit the giant mess made by previous generations. And for many grown-ups, the future of children and grandchildren might be the only motivation that actually makes change happen.

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