How to Recycle Cosmetics?
How to recycle? Before sending your plastic containers off to the recycling depot (or store), try your best to remove all the excess product. Wash out the container with water, then dry.
How it’s recycled. You may be wondering how your plastic containers are recycled? At the recycling plant, the plastic products are separated by polymer type. Then, it is cleaned again more thoroughly (in case you did not do a good job prior to dropping off your containers at the depot). Then the containers are extruded into plastic pellets that are used to make new recycled products!
Terracycle. (n.d.). Personal Care and Beauty Recycling Program. Retrieved March 15, 2016, from https://www.terracycle.com/en-US/brigades/personal-care-and-beauty-brigade-r