72 SharesI used to be a green beauty blogger before I started talking about zero waste. I was subscribed to monthly beauty boxes and end up with tons of products I didn’t even finish. Something felt off. When I learned about the zero waste movement, it all clicked: I’m creating unnecessary waste. And I wasn’t alone. The personal care and beauty industry produces more than 120 billion unitsof packaging every year globally—most of which are not truly recyclable.Makeup packaging in particular is typically too small to be recycled – it’ll slip through the cracks of recycling facilities, getting lost. In 2018, in the U.S. alone, almost 7.9 billion units of rigid plastic were created just for beauty and personal care products.So how can we end this landslide of makeup waste? Switching to zero waste makeup like the brands in this article. Here’s what you need to know.FYI, this is a guest post written by Sydney Montagna, a zero waste advocate and aspiring writer. This post contains affiliate l...
