You work hard, and to treat yourself, you purchase face masks and creams like it’s your part-time job. While that’s all good and great, have you ever thought about the packaging of these products and how there are currently 6.3 billion metric tons of plastic waste chilling in a landfill for the next 400 years? What about the fact that 45% of that waste is from product packaging? If the plastic doesn’t end up in a landfill, it’s littered throughout oceans, causing harm to marine life.
Earlier this month, TerraCycle teamed up with L’ Occitane en Provence, a luxury personal care brand, to create a free and easy way for consumers to recycle their packagings. All you have to do is drop off the empties, whether it’s a moisturizing cream, lipstick tubes or shampoo bottles, at one of the participating L’Occitane stores and you’ll receive a 10% discount towards one product the very same day.
