The Beauty Industry DEPENDS ON Plastic. DID IT Change?
Many beauty and personal care products usually come in liquid form. However, many companies are reimagining the products as solids, decreasing the necessity for plastic product packaging. The beauty industry creates a lot of plastic waste materials. Shampoo, lotion, deodorant: They all come swathed in plastic. But some ongoing companies want to change that.
For Tara Pelletier, it arrived to deodorant down. Her company, Meow Meow Tweet, had developed a formula for deodorant that she loved. It worked, it smelled great, and it was ready to make its way out into the armpits of her excited customers. Some companies, like Kjaer Weiss, are experimenting with developing refillable containers, decreasing the quantity of disposable product packaging they produce.
Why, she thought, should a deodorant that she’d used for a couple weeks or months to come in a plastic case that would be around for longer than she’d be alive? So she researched and sought out an alternative. Cup jars with metallic lids proved helpful well pretty, but many people objected to scoop the paste out with their fingers.
Bio-based plastics and biodegradable plastics acquired their own sets of environmental disadvantages. It appeared like all the product-packaging options she may find were some variant on bad. Eventually, after months of searching, she found an ongoing company that made sturdy paper tubes that cradled the product neatly. Finally, a remedy, she thought. She and her coworkers have to hand-fill each tube, and their income is slim because the cardboard tubes cost 60 times …