To Reduce Costs and Waste, Businesses Need to Implement Refill Systems

Business operators are being urged to switch to refill systems to reduce plastic waste while also lowering operational costs. This trend is emerging amid the need for efficiency and increasing pressure from environmental issues.

The single-use consumption model is deemed no longer relevant as it triggers wastefulness and increases the burden of packaging waste across various sectors.

The sustainable retail company Siklus offers a solution through Internet of Things (IoT)-based dispensing technology. This system allows the use of cleaning products to be monitored in real-time, making it more controlled.

Siklus Co-Founder Laksamana Sakti said that conventional distribution still leaves many inefficiencies. Unmeasured product usage often leads to waste and increased waste.

“With a dispensing system and technology-based monitoring, usage can be more controlled. At the same time, dependence on single-use packaging can also be reduced,” said Laksamana on Friday (17/4/2026).

This problem often occurs in sectors with high cleanliness needs, such as hospitals, hotels, and food and beverage businesses. In addition to swelling costs, packaging waste also poses its own challenges.

Through a subscription model, Siklus combines smart dispensing machines with supplies of products in large packaging. This scheme is considered capable of cutting distribution costs while reducing the use of single-use packaging.

Siklus is also partnering with Snap Clean to expand the implementation of this system in the commercial sector. This collaboration focuses on improving product usage control and distribution efficiency.

Siklus Chief Commercial Officer Dicky Sukarmadji believes that efficiency cannot rely solely on operational discipline. A built system is considered more consistent in keeping usage optimal.

“If efficiency only depends on humans, the results are inconsistent. With a system, control can be more stable and measurable,” said Dicky.

In the future, refill systems are expected to be increasingly adopted by business operators. This change is driven by the need for efficiency as well as efforts to reduce plastic waste in the commercial sector.