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Personal Care Waste - Beaches - Coggle Diagram
Personal Care Waste - Beaches
Packaging Waste on Beaches
Lack of convenient recycling systems enables more packaging waste on beaches
Greenly
"Plastic packaging and small plastic items comprise nearly 80% of plastic waste and are prevalent on European beaches"
European Environment Agency
“Food wrappers taking over as the number one item merely underscores the unsustainable production of single-use, disposable food and beverage packaging,”
Waste 360
Recycling rates have increased but the amount of waste generated is growing faster than actua recycling
Cosmetics Design
Chosen Packaging Options
Liquid Sunscreen
"Between 6,000 - 10,000 tonnes of sunscreen lotion wind up in coral reef areas every year"
Tiny Waste
Difficult to recycle sunscreen bottles if residual sunscreen is left inside the bottle
Seasick Sunscreen
Reusable containers for sunscreen can be considered, such as aluminium which can be readily recycled at EOL
Microplastics inside liquid sunscreen can damage people's skin and aquati life once absorbed into the water
Moral Fibres
Lip Balm
"Lip balm tubes, like all plastics, are made from crude oil, a non-renewable resource"
Tiny Waste
Non-biodegradable
High levels of manufacturing pollution
Lip balm tubes typically are not recyclable due to them being made of a mix of plastics
Tiny Waste
Lip balms also come in recycled paper tubes which can be easily recycled once empt, and the lip balm itself contains no microplastics
Treehugger
Zinc Sunscreen
Does not absorb into the user's skin or into the water
Dr Bailey Skincare
No microplastics
Water resistant
Refill on the Go
Current Recycling Systems
A deposit and return scheme (DRS) would mean customers pay upfront for their bottle (deposit), and the money is redeemed when they return it.
Modern Milkman
Terracycle
allows users to send in their used personal care packaging free of cost so they can be recycled correctly