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It’s about to get a lot easier to recycle your beauty products in Canada thanks to the Nordstrom Beautycycle program. Starting today, the retailer will accept empty beauty product packaging, regardless of brand, at any Nordstrom Canada store. The goal is make sure that hard-to-recycle packaging isn’t sent straight to landfill. (Of 120 billion units […]

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From ingredient sourcing to sustainable packaging, here’s how the industry’s forward thinkers are striving to tread more lightly as they produce the beauty products you see on the shelves. RETHINK (INGREDIENTS) The fine print on beauty labels tells us next to nothing about how responsibly sourced ingredients are. To muddy matters, calculating a product’s eco-footprint […]

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I think about this scene from season two of Mad Men a lot: after a family picnic in the park, Don tosses his empty beer can into the trees as Betty shakes off the picnic blanket, scattering wrappers and remnants from their lunch all over the grass, before they all climb into Don’s new Cadillac […]

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Earlier this year, CBC News revealed that here in Toronto, 26% of our recycling is contaminated (compared to say, 4.6% in Vancouver). A contaminated product–a jar that hasn’t been completely rinsed, for example–can deem an entire bag of recycling unusable, meaning despite good intentions, landfills are often the final destination. Sigh. This is even more problematic when […]

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