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Sephora’s Take-Back Program Repurposes Beauty Products To Cut Waste

To date, more than 10,860 pounds of hard-to-recycle material have been collected.

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By: Lianna Albrizio

Associate Editor

With 95% of cosmetic packaging tossed in the trash, packaging waste is one of the biggest sustainability challenges facing the beauty industry. What’s more, most of it isn’t accepted in curbside recycling programs due to size or materials. The result is an annual 8 million tons of plastic flooding oceans, according to Sephora. Beauty (Re)Purposed Program As Earth Day approaches, Sephora has an assortment of refillable beauty products from more than 45 brands including viral favori...

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