Packaging Recycling Guide
Here is a guide to help you sort our packaging after you've finished the formula. The information is based on OPRL (On Pack Recycling Label) rules for the UK recycling streams.
A few golden rules before you start:
Ensure there is no product residue
Even as little as 10% of the formulation left inside a tube or jar can hinder recyclability. You can part-cut tubes to take out that last bit of product (for your own benefit too) and then rinse. Don’t worry about drying them.
Remove pumps from bottles
Pumps are not currently recyclable because of the small metal springs inside that can damage the machines in the processing facilities. Where possible, unscrew them from the bottles. Pipettes are made of mixed materials that are not easy to separate.
Leave pipettes on glass bottles & recycle
Small caps, even if made of recyclable materials, will fall through the machines in the recycling facilities. But, if left on the main packaging, they will get separated and recycled in the correct material stream. This also goes for travel size products.
Recycle all bottles
All of our plastic bottles are made from widely recyclable PET (Press & Clear, Press & Glow) and HDPE (Calmwise Soothing Cleanser, Micellar Mousse, Clarifying Foam). Our travel size bottles can also be recycled - if the pumps are removed. The glass bottles with pumps (Liquid Peptides Advanced MP) are widely recyclable, if you remove the pump.
Check if tubes are recycled in your area
As not all local authorities accept tubes, please check locally. Unfortunately, the airless tubes cannot be recycled because the pump cannot be detached from the tube.
Recycle all cartons and e-commerce mailers within the paper stream
All of our outer cartons are recyclable, and so are the mailing boxes our products are sent in.
Leave caps on bottles and screw-top tubes
Small caps, even if made of recyclable materials, will fall through the machines in the recycling facilities. But, if left on the main packaging, they will get separated and recycled in the correct material stream. This also goes for travel size products.
Refill
Total Moisture Daily Facial Cream™, Advanced Pro-Collagen+ Peptide Cream, Press & Glow and Press & Clear come with refill options.
Recycle at home
Glass jar, refill pods, tubes with a flip or screw-top (check locally), plastic and glass bottles, cartons, aluminium sample tubes and mailers.
Glass jar
Recycle the jar, pod and cap separated from each other. Pod and cap are made from PP.
Refill pod
Remove aluminium foil and recycle both. When empty, ensure no residue in the pod and recycle.The pod is made from PP.
Plastic bottles
Glass bottles & Pipettes
You can now recycle the pipettes with the glass bottles. So leave them screwed on when you finish the serum and place the glass bottle in the recycling bin.
Glass bottles with pumps
White PP jars
Aluminium sample tubes
Ensure they are completely empty, reinsert the cap and recycle with metals or mixed recycling.
Not currently recycled
Please put these products in your household waste bin.
Frosted jars
Our frosted jars are not currently recyclable, but we are working on replacing them with a recyclable alternative.
Airless tubes & bottles
Due to the sensitivity of our formulations, we need to use airless tubes to ensure the optimal potency and power of our active ingredients once the packaging has been opened. The tubes themselves are recyclable but, because the pumps cannot be removed, the whole packaging becomes unrecyclable. We are working on developing airless pumps that can be recycled. For the moment, these tubes will need to go into the general waste.
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