As the New Year got underway the CPG and personal care company announced an initiative to further reduce, recycle, and repurpose manufacturing waste. It’s a strategy that presents both new challenges and new opportunities.
Ethical and sustainability claims are proving among the hottest trends right now, and a new way for formulators to tap into this heightened state of consumer consciousness is to reuse otherwise discarded materials.
The Cosmetics Design USA team is introducing a brand new industry award that aims to find the best ingredient developed using recycled, repurposed, by-products or waste materials.
The sustainable packaging material is now being distributed across North America under the name Earth Pact by Veritiv in partnership with Carvajal Pulp and Paper.
Leading aerosol packaging provider Ball and hair care leader Henkel have co-developed a lightweight aluminum aerosol packaging for the Fa hair care brand.
As part of efforts by Procter & Gamble to raise the bar on its sustainability targets, the consumer products giant has joined the Flexible Film Recycling Group (FFRG).
The company just announced its 2015 objectives to limit waste and is advocating for personal care industry suppliers to be more involved with sustainability.
The study, with an entire section devoted to the personal care product category, ascertained which certification logos and language signify reliably for consumers and B2B decision makers.
Meeting consumer expectations regarding a beauty product and also using the most environmentally friendly packaging possible can lead to a conflict of interest and is the dilemma facing the cosmetics industry.
The global personal care brand has launched a ‘care to recycle’ campaign in a bid to remind US consumers to recycle more toiletries after 7 out of 10 Americans admitted that they only recycle bathroom items every 1 in 5 instances.
Natural and organic cosmetics player Aveda has become one of a handful of cosmetic manufacturers to operate a full packaging recycling program in the United States.
The issue of sustainability never seems to be far from the minds of cosmetics manufacturers, and L’Oreal USA’s latest green goal has been realized as its Garnier subsidiary develops the first community garden made from non-recyclable post-consumer beauty...
Unilever says that its business in the United States has hit zero waste to landfill targets at all 26 of its manufacturing and non-manufacturing headquarter facilities in the region.
The manufacturer, well-known for brands like Gillette, has now achieved zero manufacturing waste to landfill in 45 of its facilities across the globe, a major step towards its long-term efforts to be more sustainable.
Anglo-Dutch consumer products maker Unilever has teamed up with US-based environmental research company Earth911 to try and establish if it is economically viable to recycle deodorant packaging.
The National Association for PET Container Resources (NAPCOR) and The Association of Postconsumer Plastic Recyclers (APR) announced that the2011 U.S. recycling rate for polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plastic containers has stayed strong at 29.3 percent.
Avery Dennison is platforming its Bottle-to-Bottle (B2B) Film portfolio at this year’s Labelexpo Americas, which is designed specifically for the PET recycling stream.
The supplier of natural oral and personal care products has partnered with TerraCycle, a recycling developer, to give a second life to product packaging.
DaniMer Scientific has developed a biobased label adhesive that it says eliminates problems associated with PET container recycling and enables increased end of life functionality and value.
Johnson & Johnson, the manufacturers of Sundown sun care products have been working with Braskem, a petrochemical company on developing new bio-plastic packaging, in an effort to meet the growing demand for more sustainable products which has recently...
With sustainability still a major topic of concern within the industry, companies continue to explore other avenues to keep up with environmentally friendly initiatives, and we take a look at some of these packaging options.
Global packaging company Sonoco has set its waste reduction goals over the next four years as it aims at moving its manufacturing plants to landfill-free status.
Aptar Beauty and Home has scooped a Gold award at the DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation for its recyclable Eden all plastic airless dispenser that can be used for a variety of cosmetics products including moisturisers, sun care and hair styling products.
Implementing sustainable packaging in an affordable way dominates the global packaging industry for consumer packaged goods according to science-based products and services company DuPont.
Although Americans are willing to take modest steps to protect the environment or conserve energy, shifts in attitudes and more eco-conscious behaviors are slow to come, particularly among mature segments of the population.
Garnier has taken strides towards reducing waste and upping its sustainability drive having announced an exclusive partnership with green company TerraCycle.
P&G says that it will strive to certify all new production facilities according to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certifcation standards.
L’Oreal Canada has been recognized for its green initiatives and been promoted to the highest rank of the "ICI ‘On Recycle!’ Program: Level 3 – Performance.
With Organic Monitor predicting an increase in the take up of sustainable packaging initiatives by beauty companies in 2011, the topic promises to a focus of industry events this year.
Portola Packaging has announced its environmental improvements in energy and packaging source reduction and recycling, as it seeks to minimize its environmental impact in a sustainable way.
DuPont’s packaging and industrial polymers sector is calling for entries for its 2011 packaging awards where it will award innovative and sustainable packaging.
Global beauty company Coty has selected Klöckner Pentaplast’s new renewable resource TerraPET films for the packaging of its men’s Adidas fragrance range, in a bid to meet the company’s sustainable packaging goals.
Consumers would probably give a firm ‘no’in response to this question. But scratch the surface a little harder and it becomes evident that there is more than a little truth to the statement.
New sustainable materials and technologies need to be evaluated to really understand what they can bring to a product, according to luxury rigid box manufacturer, Knoll Packaging.
A new polypropylene-based material that combines natural grass waste is the secret behind a cosmetic packaging with a significantly reduced environmental footprint.
Highlighting resource use of the packaging and pushing for more recyclable materials might be a step in the right direction but we should not forget petrochemical-based materials that already exist and may have a better environmental profile than those...
The fastest-growing segment within the sustainable packaging sector over the next five years is anticipated to be plastic-based packaging, according to market intelligence firm, Pike Research.
Eco-friendly packaging has been one of the buzz words in the cosmetics and personal care world this year, illustrated by a seemingly never-ending list of developments.
Bio-based plastic resins are beginning to make their mark on the world of packaging; but, although significant savings are being made on resource use, much still needs to be done to improve end-of-life options.
Taxing virgin PET is one of the best ways to get companies to move over to using recycled material for plastic packaging, according to a green chemist.
The industry must change the way it thinks about waste and traditional chemistry if it wants to reduce resource use, according to a green chemistry consultant.
The Estee Lauder-owned natural beauty brand Origins is introducing a scheme to recycle all of the packaging for its range of cosmetic products, together with those of competitors.
