How recyclable is your make-up? Traditionally, our mascaras, lipsticks and so forth have been beauty’s trickiest items to design recyclability into.
“Make-up packaging such as mascaras, lip glosses, lipsticks, compacts and jars are often highly complex as they are small, compact, cylindrical, multi-material and use plastics, such as ABS [acrylonitrile butadiene styrene], which have no existing recycling stream,” Gilles Swyngedauw, VP, Corporate Social Responsibility and Product Sustainability for Cosmetics & Fragrance at Albéa, tells Cosmetics Business.
But complexity is no longer an adequate excuse, as, internationally, the onus is now on the makers of packaged goods – like cosmetics – to ensure their products can be repurposed into valuable secondary resources, or pay the price.
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