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Sustainability

Is 2021 the year of sustainable beauty?

With everything that has happened over the past year, one thing that has been made evidently clear is that the topic of sustainability is going nowhere – if anything, the coronavirus situation has only made it more pressing.

With 50 million single-use facemasks going to landfill each day during the pandemic, according to waste collection company Business Waste, it’s never been more important to look at how the rubbish we produce is impacting the planet – whether you’re a big corporation or a small business. The beauty industry in particular has quite a lot to do to become more eco-friendly, with Zero Waste Week reporting that 120 billion units of packaging are produced by global cosmetic companies every year, with much of this heading to landfill. The abundance of single-use plastic produced is a serious issue and one that needs to be addressed ASAP.

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