Garnier, a leading naturally-inspired skincare and haircare brand, announced that Winston-Salem State University received a Garnier Green Garden made from recycled beauty and personal care products for the Winston-Salem community. University student Miranda Legg was named the winner of Garnier national Rinse, Recycle, Repeat campaign, created in partnership with TerraCycle, the world’s leader in the collection and repurposing of hard-to-recycle post-consumer waste, and DoSomething.org, the largest tech company exclusively for young people and social change.  

Got a shelf in your shower filled with shampoo? Garnier and TerraCycle® partnered for a recycling program that will take your personal care and beauty products. You have to sign up online in order to participate, but the program is free to use. Once you sign up, deposit your old hair care, skin care, and cosmetic items into any box you have. Once the box is filled and mailed back, your leftover makeup and beauty products will be recycled and remade into other products. According to Garnier, recycled beauty products are used to make elements for community parks, playgrounds and gardens in Nebraska, Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio and New York.

Got a shelf in your shower filled with shampoo? Garnier and TerraCycle® partnered for a recycling program that will take your personal care and beauty products. You have to sign up online in order to participate, but the program is free to use. Once you sign up, deposit your old hair care, skin care, and cosmetic items into any box you have. Once the box is filled and mailed back, your leftover makeup and beauty products will be recycled and remade into other products. According to Garnier, recycled beauty products are used to make elements for community parks, playgrounds and gardens in Nebraska, Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio and New York.

After putting in my daily contact lenses, I’d already produced more waste: the packaging each set comes in. Crap! The fix: Try the biweekly version instead to cut down. Another solution? Terracycle has a partnership with Bausch & Lomb that recycles contacts, blister packs, and the top foil. You save your garbage, buy the box, send it to them, and they do the rest. Actually, now’s a great time to mention Terracycle’s partnership with Garnier, which recycles literally any hair care, skin care, and cosmetics packaging. (Is it worth it to devote the resources to ship a box of garbage across the country to be recycled? You make the call.)

I’m being haunted by a seahorse. Ever since I saw Justin Hofman's viral photo of that sad little ocean pony clinging to a plastic cotton swab, I’ve been aware of just how much plastic waste my beauty routine creates. Since the advent of plastics, humans have made 8.3 billion metric tons of the stuff. Of that, 6.3 billion metric tons have already been thrown out and 91 percent of that waste has not been recycled. I’m just one person contributing to a garbage mountain that threatens to suffocate the planet. So when Allure asked me to try a sustainable beauty routine with no single-use plastic, I was all in — as long as it wasn’t too hard.

Miranda Legg, a senior at Winston-Salem State University, proved herself a credit to the school by winning a contest involving recycling and then speaking passionately about the environment when interviewed by the Journal’s Jennie Drabble earlier this week. As a result of her devotion, WSSU’s Simon’s Green Acre Community Garden at the school’s Enterprise Center will get a $30,000 facelift, and Legg will receive a $2,000 scholarship.

Back-to-school season is on its way, and while the thought of homework, exams, and long campus days may seem overwhelming, this seasonal transition is actually a great time to refocus! We at HC love to treat the new school year almost like the start of a new year entirely, right down to refreshing our mindset (along with pretty much all our possessions as we back-to-school shop our hearts out). The biggest change we’re making this year: being mindful of our eco-footprint with our beauty routine.

Winston-Salem State University’s community garden will get a facelift after a student saved more than 5,000 beauty products from the landfill. Senior Miranda Legg was awarded a $30,000 grant to revamp the university’s Simon’s Green Acre Community Garden at the Enterprise Center after she won a national competition for her recycling efforts.

What is your daily beauty routine? Take a second to think about what products you use for your hair and skin. What brands? Is the packaging recyclable? What are the ingredients? Something we rarely consider are the ingredients that make up our beauty products. Which is ironic, because that ultimately determines if the product works or not. Some household name brands are made up of harmful chemicals that do the opposite of their intention. Over time, these cosmetics can actually cause damage to our skin and hair. It's a good thing that there are green alternatives to these products conveniently available to us. All we have to do is become conscious of our purchases and what we incorporate into our daily beauty routines!

After her retirement from her job as a hospice nurse, emptiness crept inside her. She wanted to do something else and felt that there was something missing which made her wonder what was in store for her. By chance, her sister mentioned Sprout NOLA, a neighborhood garden in her community that was started by the Green Garden Giveaway by Garnier and TerraCycle. Picnic tables and garden boxes fashioned out of recycled materials plus cash funding were given away to deserving districts to help start gardens that the locals can share and use. Sprout NOLA was one of these gardens that has brought neighbors closer, serving as a place of congregation and offering vegetable and free garden plots to the locale.