The mono-material packaging helps to enhance the recycling rate,  is an effortless green action for beauty and skincare companies to take.

While adopting post-consumer recycled resin for better use of plastic waste, there are a few more things worth paying attention to. One is to make sure the packaging format is recyclable for the mechanical recycling method.

Better plastic waste management starts with a mono-material packaging design

Most skincare packaging innovations target improving user experience and product protection enhancements. Hence, engineers and designers make the best out of available materials, often plastics, to achieve the required functionalities. However, plastic is difficult to differentiate due to the great flexibility of its character despite all benefits of easy-to-shape, durability, light-weight, breakage-free, and perfect barrier from possible oxidation. One engineered packaging application might be a composition of different plastic types that are inseparable. It also means not recyclable for mechanical recycling method.

The traditional mechanical recycling method can be efficient for continuous looping only with the appropriate use of the system. A mono-material packaging plus RIC (Resin Identification Code) marking are easily recyclable are achievable for most consumer product packaging.

Today, Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle are part of the lifestyle. Beauty, skincare, and cosmetic companies focus on simplified design, using less material, and enhancing recyclability. Opting for mono-material packaging can be a positive start.

The PET bottles and jars listed in the SR Packaging catalog are mono-material concepts. Here are PP jars and PET jars lining up a set of volume variations, but each differs a bit in size. All options are available with PCR resin.

All the PP jars and PET jars are available with the PCR option (post-consumer recycled resin)

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