We’re used to recycling kitchen waste – great job on properly disposing of that milk carton – but when it comes to beauty product packaging, things aren’t as straightforward.
Some 120 billion. That’s the number of units of packaging produced yearly by the global cosmetics industry – according to Zero Waste Week, an annual waste awareness campaign held in Britain every September for landfill reduction. As for the cardboard packaging that you discard after extracting a new beauty buy? They say that’s a loss of 18 million acres of forest each year.
These are big, unfathomable numbers. They are also numbers that anyone who has ever bought a moisturiser, shampoo or lipstick has contributed to. And the answer to combating unnecessary waste doesn’t lie in just recycling. It lies in informed recycling.
This story is from the April 2019 edition of Her World Singapore.
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