Jamie Matusow, Editor-in-Chief04.30.18
Consumer awareness of the impact of packaging on the environment, particularly plastics, has sparked renewed interest in measures for solutions, and many beauty brands and suppliers have taken the issue to heart.
At the start of 2018, the EU announced plans to make all plastic packaging across the continent recyclable or reusable by 2030. Frans Timmermans, the European Commission’s first vice-president, who is responsible for sustainable development, said: “If we don’t change the way we produce and use plastics, there will be more plastics than fish in our oceans by 2050.”
In the last few months, Amcor, Ecover, Evian, L’Oréal, Mars, M&S, P&G, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Walmart and Werner & Mertz—which together reportedly use in excess of 6 million metric tons of plastic packaging a year—have committed to using only reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging by 2025, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
With ocean plastic in the headlines,
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At the start of 2018, the EU announced plans to make all plastic packaging across the continent recyclable or reusable by 2030. Frans Timmermans, the European Commission’s first vice-president, who is responsible for sustainable development, said: “If we don’t change the way we produce and use plastics, there will be more plastics than fish in our oceans by 2050.”
In the last few months, Amcor, Ecover, Evian, L’Oréal, Mars, M&S, P&G, PepsiCo, Coca-Cola, Unilever, Walmart and Werner & Mertz—which together reportedly use in excess of 6 million metric tons of plastic packaging a year—have committed to using only reusable, recyclable or compostable packaging by 2025, according to the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
With ocean plastic in the headlines,
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