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While some packaging suppliers rely on offsets to claim to remove ocean plastic, Seacliff Beauty is doing it quite literally.
Seacliff Beauty became the exclusive beauty supplier for the #tide ocean material plastic resin earlier this year and the company has spent the time since at trade shows and online promoting the new packaging option.
Brian Saputo, executive vice president of Seacliff, told CosmeticsDesign the partnership is part of broader efforts to curb the flow of plastic packaging into the world's landfills and oceans. For Seacliff and #tide specifically, that means pulling plastic out of waters near Malaysia to be turned back into packaging.
“If you go up 40,000 feet, the problem that we're trying to solve is how to close the loop,” Saputo said. “It is finding a solution for an ongoing problem and trying to, no pun intended, stem the tide of all this plastic going into the ocean, how we collect it and bring it back into the consumer world.”
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States across the US are enacting sustainable packaging laws, but Ameripen is also clocking increased dialog and stagnant action at the federal level.
CosmeticsDesign spoke with Dan Felton, executive director of packaging trade association Ameripen, about what's happening at the federal level and what the cosmetics industry can expect to see in sustainable packaging regulation next.
Before reading this article, readers can brush up on what sustainable packaging regulation is happening at the state level in this CosmeticsDesign article.
Tell me about the kind of transition from state-based regulation into federal regulation.
There's a lot more conversation happening at the federal level, but right now, there's nothing moving at the federal level. As typical, the states are the incubator for ideas, and then at some point, they may gain critical mass.
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Between sustainability efforts by suppliers and making sustainability claims on finished products is a lot of data, and an expert says emerging software solutions are the answer.
CosmeticsDesign spoke with Ludovic Wassermann, cosmetics and personal care business consultant at Centric Software, about the role software plays in today's push for sustainability and in the future of a sustainable personal care market.
How do you see technology fitting into meeting sustainability demands?
When you have sustainability goals, where do you define them? If you don’t have any tools, you'll define them somewhere in an Excel spreadsheet or whatever. This is something that you have to define, you have to monitor, you have to implement solutions to make sure that you reach your goals, and then you have to report on it.
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Pact Collective started around a year ago with a mission to help beauty become more circular, and the non-profit has several plans to tackle the industry's biggest waste problems.
CosmeticsDesign spoke with Pact Collective about how they are working towards a circular economy, why they believe that transition matters and what the challenges are.
Tell me a bit about Pact Collective’s mission around circularity in personal care and cosmetics.
The beauty and wellness industries generate over 120 billion packages every year, with most ending up in landfills or incinerators. The packaging is often too small, too flexible, or made of too many materials to be mechanically recycled through curbside recycling programs. Pact is on a mission to change this.
Many brands are working towards improving sustainability, but some are more successful at engaging audiences with sustainability on social media.
EYECUE Insights recently released its report “The Sustainability Sustainability Handbook: Top Performing Strategies for Brands,” which used AI technology to analyze 160,000 posts across 130 social media accounts, according to a press release.
The report covers how those brands address sustainability on social media and how consumers engage with those posts.
“Given the nature of the beauty industry, the amount of waste it generates and the size of its audience, brands … carry an obligation to not only ensure they are taking measures to be more sustainable, but also to educate consumers on their sustainability efforts,” said EYECUE Insights Founder Carolina Bañales in the release.