Our Favourite Beauty Brands That Have Their Own Recycling Programs

With the beauty industry booming, it’s easy to see how quickly one can come to hoard a small (or big) collection of beauty products. We talked to Marina Tatas from Finder to round up a list of beauty brands and stores that will happily accept your empty product containers and even reward you with some…

ByRobyn Foyster01/08/20230Comments

Environment Sustainability

Meet The Woman Solving The World’s Plastic Problem With Crustacean Shells

Plastic is a huge environmental problem and one the world is desperately trying to fix with alternative solutions. Carapac is an Australian company founded by Kimberly Bolton with a unique proposition: the company has found a way to turn crustacean shell waste into materials which make a viable alternative to many forms of soft plastics. So…

ByIlona Marchetta17/11/20210Comments

Lifestyle & Homes Parenting Sustainability

Trashed Your Game Console or Mobile? Recycling Tips For Kids

Kids today don’t remember the land before time, mobile phones, Nintendo DS or iPads. A world without Google… really? Our lives are filled with electronic devices that get tossed the second the new model’s released or you forget to ‘update’ your system. The result? A whole load of e-waste landfill and a catastrophic effect on…

ByFranki Hobson11/11/20210Comments

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7 Ways to Run an Eco-Friendly Office That Employees Love

Working in the business world is a hard job with a lot of responsibilities, but there’s one responsibility that most companies ignore because it simply isn’t to their advantage financially speaking. Most companies don’t take responsibility for the harm they’re causing to the environment and therefore they aren’t taking any measures despite the fact that the business world…

ByTiffany Harper04/11/20200Comments

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Beauty Brand Helps Australia Reduce Carbon Footprint

Full credit to L’Oreal for joining forces with TerraCycle a global recycling expert to find new ways to recycle packaging that currently goes to landfill. Initiatives like the launch of the Beauty Products Recycling Program across L’Oreal brands Garnier, L’Oreal Paris and Maybelline encourage consumers to change their habits, to collect their empty beauty products at…

ByLiz Courtney01/07/20160Comments

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Turn Your Leftover Food Into New Flavours

Kids are learning to reduce waste, reuse and recycle in schools, but what about the adults at home? A whopping 92 per cent of Australian households throw out cooked food each week. And it’s not just an environmental waste, it’s a waste of money too – with the average Aussie household binning almost $1,000 in…

ByFranki Hobson12/08/20150Comments