Just How Game-Changing Is Dissolvable Packaging?

The greater beauty industry is not, by definition, in the business of ugliness. But even the fluffiest, most fragrant roses have their thorns — thorns which, in beauty, come wrapped in plastic packaging that’s never to be seen, and certainly not used, again. According to research from recycling company TerraCycle, the global beauty and personal-care industry produces approximately 120 billion units of packaging every year, only a small percentage of which are accepted by traditional recycling programs. This is not a consumer issue, to be sure: In 2018, in the U.S. alone, roughly 7.9 billion units of rigid plastic were… Read Full Article