Cosmetics sector adopts sustainable packaging

As part of an industry-wide shift towards sustainable and recyclable packaging, a number of leading cosmetics companies are already using green packaging to fight plastic pollution.

Luxury beauty brand Chanel has acquired a stake in Sulapac, a Finnish start-up which has developed a new industrially-recyclable material that is totally biodegradable in the marine environment.

Lush (UK) has reduced product packaging and labelling to a bare minimum, selling them “naked” in its stores, while Davines (Parma) has been working for years to offset CO₂ emissions through reforestation and woodland protection projects around the world.

The company began adopting bio-based or recycled plastic in 2017 and has now declared that 100% of its revenue is generated from products with CO₂-compensated packaging.