Cosmetics Packaging Is A Recycling Disaster. Can Turning It Into Furniture Help? | World Wide Waste

Lotion, toothpaste, and make-up packaging are a recycling disaster, but one UK family business has a complex process to give it a new life. It makes plywood-like boards that can be used to make all kinds of furniture.

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How To Recycle Makeup And Toiletries Packaging | World Wide Waste | Insider Business

[lbennett]

Ive always been shocked when companies just throw out unsold products. That $150 bottle of perfume is clearly not worth that much if they would rather throw it out than reduce the consumer price 🤦🏼‍♀️

[barborakopalova]

He is right, many companies don't think thru how the packagings will end, or how easy it is to recycle them.

[monalee]

I’m glad this video covers micro plastics created in the recycling process instead of making it sound like it’s a perfect solution

[emmah]

I'm beginning to re-evaluate my consumer behaviour. So many things I buy are actually not necessary 😢.

[harrietlyall]

If you have make-up you’ve not used, a great way to use it is in art. Make up has beautiful bright, subtle colours and is often in a greasy base which glides on smoothly to paper or card. You can do a landscape, for example, and make lovely soft effects with smudges and dabs of eye shadow, or a sketch of flowers and colour it up from your palette. It’s criminal to throw it away without thinking of a use for it.

[Truth_hurts]

Large scale production should be required to also operate a recycling center where their products are made and take care of the waste themselves or as much as possible

[Tyler_Flynn]

1:21 Kurt your doing a good job buddy thank you for Sitting there all day sifting thru our garbage to make sure shit gets recycled properly your the man 💯

[bec]

My husband works for a company that builds street furniture, benches, bins, planters, etc, and local councils pay over $14000 for a simple park bench. Yet this is obviously a much better option. It makes me cringe, and we've had many a debate about more environmentally conscious options.

[ddneq]

"We've always had a very hard time understanding why brands bring certain products to market without actually understanding if there's a recycling route for them." Me fkn too!

[pitviper]

The problem with local recycling programs is two fold. One- They do not give specific criteria of what plastics are recyclable and what their contents could have been. I am saying this from my personal experience locally. Two- there are people that do not care and throw anything into the recycle bin. I feel these people are from the consumer standpoint, the worst offenders of contaminating the waste stream of recyclables.

[batya]

We need this here, now, in the US. So much could be done! Recycling is currently managed community by community with no unified effort.

[maureenwalsh]

Brilliant! This should be mandatory for use in schools, libraries, etc. Businesses should be required a quota of recycled board use. This is the way!

[emmak]

This makes me realise how much we waste! Its awful, so so happy these guys have managed to create such a wonderful way of recycling! So proud of them! I hope one day they can expand to all over the world❤

[film]

I'm so glad I started cutting down on plastic in my daily life since 2016 as the sheer amount of plastic that would usually get thrown away into landfill is ridiculous. These guys do great work. :)

[johndoyle]

Thanks, I worked in recycling for 30 years, we were very innovative in our recycling process, but as you say this is only part of the story, you have to have or create a market for the recycled product, and this is equally difficult.
Yes, shredders, grinders, trommels, mag separators, eddy current separators, screens, etc. It is very hard on the machinery when rogue items get into your shredder.
Wish you luck with this venture.

[FreyaOakley]

It's promising to see more brands thinking about their impact now but progress seems so slow! There are some wonderful brands out there making cosmetics that use no plastic at all in their packaging. I hope to see a day when these are the majority!

[KanishQQuotes]

These collection boxes should be at supermarket allowing people to deposit the loads of packaging materials

[koryschrutz]

As someone who actually works in QC in the cosmetics industry, I can tell you dozens if not hundreds of bottles can get wasted for multiple reasons-something as simple as the label machine that actually puts the label on the packaging/bottle getting a small wrinkle in the plastic.

[mariehansler]

This is so cool! I hope we can start something like this here in Canada! I am so sick of throwing my plastics into the recycling bin, knowing that about 50-75% of it is going to landfill sites. We need more innovator's like this gentleman. And I thought of many things that can be created with the sheets they are making. Great job, and many Kudo's from Canada. 💜

[violetagira]

Good job guys. We are so thankful for what you do. Thank you for saving our planet.