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Sustainable Beauty Awards Announces 2020 Winners

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image.png The winners of the 2020 Sustainable Beauty Awards were announced today at a virtual awards ceremony. The aim of the Sustainable Beauty Awards is to give recognition to operators who are pushing the boundaries of sustainability in the beauty industry. The winners and runners-up of these international awards include: New Sustainable Product Hair O’right International (Taiwan) is the winner with its N° Zero Toothpaste. Launched in January, the natural toothpaste is carbon neutral and formulated with food-grade ingredients that are certified according to the USDA bio-based program. Faith in Nature (UK) is runner-up with its Natural Shampoo Bar. The finalists are Comfort Zone Sacred Nature Youth Serum, Martina Gebhardt SATIS Dental Teeth Cleaning Powder, and Pegada Verde lda Naua Natural Care. Sustainable Ingredient The winner is Actera Ingredients (USA) with ILOX+. The natural antioxidant ingredient is made from yerba mate leaves which are ethically sourced from the Atlantic Rainforest in Brazil. The company works with the Araucária+ Initiative to ensure sustainable forest management. There are two runner-ups this year: Mibelle Biochemistry (Switzerland) with Black BeeOme and ROELMI HPC (Italy) with Emotion Light. The finalists are Döhler YuraQ, Olvea TrueShea, and Swedish Algae Factory Algica. Sustainable Packaging Lush (UK) gets top award for its Cork Pots carbon-positive packaging. Sourced from the Cork Oak Forest in Portugal, the project has involved the replanting of over 20,000 native trees. The innovative packaging is used for its naked products, such as shampoo bars, conditioners, soaps, etc. Myro (USA) is the runner-up. In 2018, the company introduced its natural deodorants in refillable pods. OLIKA, REN Clean Skincare, and Weckerle Cosmetics are the finalists. Sustainability Pioneer TerraCycle (USA) is the winner for its innovative approaches to removing waste. It is setting up recycling bins for personal care products, recycling waste materials, and launched the Loop shopping platform to help create a circular economy. Hair O'right International (Taiwan) is runner-up. It is the first Taiwanese company to carry the carbon footprint and carbon neutral labels. Clariant, LMR Naturals by IFF, and Liv Trading are the finalists. Sustainability Leadership AAK Personal Care (Sweden) and Lush (UK) are joint winners. AAK Personal Care has set up sustainable supply chains for its raw materials, including shea butter in West Africa. The projects are helping improving the lives of smallholders. Since it was formed in 1995, Lush has been spearheading green initiatives in the beauty industry. From the ethical sourcing of raw materials, production processes, (Naked) packaging initiative, to waste management. Croda International (UK) is the runner-up. Other finalists are Aveda and Hair O'right International. “There was an exceptionally high caliber of entries this year,” commented Amarjit Sahota, founder of Ecovia Intelligence and organizer of the Sustainable Beauty Awards. “On behalf of the judging panel, I would like to congratulate Lush, Hair o’Right, Actera Ingredients, TerraCycle and AAK Personal Care for their achievements. We hope these awards inspire more companies to take the green road.”
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Reusable Packaging Scales Up Despite 2020 Challenges

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Economic and environmental support continues for Loop, the shopping platform built around reusable packaging, even during uncertainties of the COVID-19 global pandemic. And its founder contemplates a future that might even leverage Internet of Things (IoT) technologies.
Lisa McTigue Pierce | Nov 04, 2020 The Loop reusable packaging initiative, while still not fully self-supporting, is advancing globally online and in physical stores with the support of major (and minor) consumer packaged goods companies (CPGs), retailers, and other partners. The global circular shopping platform launched last year by TerraCycle.
    The Loop reusable packaging initiative, while still not fully self-supporting, is advancing globally online and in physical stores with the support of major (and minor) consumer packaged goods companies (CPGs), retailers, and other partners. The global circular shopping platform launched last year by TerraCycle.
In this 20-minute podcast, environmental visionary and TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky tackles questions from Packaging Digest Executive Editor Lisa McTigue Pierce about Loop’s recent national expansion in the US, the COVID-19 impact, his plans for the near future, and packaging lessons learned by supporting brand owners. Recorded on October 12, 2020.
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Sustainable Sneaks Step Up Footwear Circularity

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Newcomer Third Mind elevates men’s footwear in more ways than one; while a first-of-its-kind recycling service from Thousand Fell, TerraCycle and UPS ensures your sustainable sneaks won’t end up in a landfill.

Third Mind continues to innovate on classic men's footwear

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Image credit: Third Mind Third Mind — a California-based sustainable men’s footwear brand that’s out to modernize men’s dress shoes, launched earlier this year — has already expanded its line of shoes that perform like a sneaker, look like dress shoes and don't harm the environment. Created by former Native Shoes exec Steve Hamel, the startup has introduced a penny loafer into its line of responsibly engineered lace-ups and wing tips for the holidays. The Gene loafer — named for Singing in the Rain actor Gene Kelly — is ultra-lightweight, eliminates odors, and is made from sustainable materials including:
  • Outsoles made with 30 percent recycled rubber from tires
  • Clarino® TirreninaTM — a non-woven microfiber leather that replaces animal leather and gives Third Mind shoes durability, stretch, and recovery for the ultimate shoe performance. The company says Clarino Tirrenina is used because of the solvent-free manufacturing process, reduction of water waste by 70 percent, and reduction of CO2 emissions by 35 percent
  • NatureTex® — a lining material made from 100 percent recycled water bottles. The strobel and inside board of Third Mind shoes contain 70 percent recycled materials. Of that 70 percent, 80 percent is from recycled plastic water bottles and the rest is from recycled post-industrial materials
Third Mind says it has an extensive approval process for selecting suppliers that provide parts for manufacturing — which requires fair wages, renewable energy programs, and pollution-eliminating programs. The company also conducts rigid quality-control tests on each products, including being vetted for harmful chemicals before it can be taken to market.

Thousand Fell launches sneaker-recycling program with UPS, TerraCycle

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Image credit: Thousand Fell Last week, recyclable footwear brand Thousand Fell announced it had teamed up with UPS and TerraCycle on an innovative sneaker-recycling program. The launch is part of a two-year partnership between Thousand Fell and TerraCycle, which together have been working to create at-scale recycling solutions for footwear — retail’s largest waste-producing product category*. The nationwide program offers customers an easy and accessible way to recycle their sneakers — through the expansive network of UPS Store locations and UPS authorized partners such as Staples. Customers can now bring their prepaid, labeled packages containing their sneakers to any of these 14,400 locations to be shipped directly back to TerraCycle for recycling; and in exchange, Thousand Fell will issue a credit of $20 towards a future purchase. Launched last year, the New York-based brand has been a pioneer in circular footwear — by shunning leather in favor of other materials such as natural recycled rubber, castor beans, coconut husks, sugar cane and quartz for its ‘full circle footwear’ designs. Its line started with white lace-up and slip-on sneakers for men and women, which co-founder Stuart Ahlum has called the “perfect product to put on a closed-loop system.” In addition to using alternative materials, Thousand Fell has tasked itself with getting product back from customers while responsibly maintaining carbon footprint and cost, and breaking down the returned products so that the materials could be reused in new sneakers. Through this partnership, Thousand Fell is empowering customers to join them in building a zero-waste future, while giving them full visibility and the ability to track their footwear’s life cycle. Through the new program: •       Thousand Fell is using UPS’s reverse logistics program for recycling returns and freight, which they can build and scale together over time, while keeping their carbon footprint as low as possible. •       Customers can drop off prepaid, labeled packages containing their sneakers at any of UPS’s 14,400 nationwide UPS Store locations or UPS authorized partners, such as Staples, so the sneakers may be shipped back to TerraCycle for recycling.  Customers can download their shipping labels at https://www.thousandfell.com/pages/our-sustainability. •       TerraCycle and Thousand Fell are also working on a closed-loop solution where old sneakers will be reintegrated into the supply chain to make new sneakers. •       Thousand Fell customers can create an account and register their sneakers once received, so that they can initiate free recycling when they’re ready — either at one of the in-person drop-off locations or by shipping them back directly to TerraCycle.  Customers will also be able to see their entire purchase history and track the personal carbon footprint for their sneakers through ThousandFell.com. *Traditionally 97 percent of all shoes end up in landfills. 300 million shoes head to landfill in the U.S. alone every year, after less than just 1 year of wear.
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VetPartners practices are committed to improving lives – and the planet

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VetPartners is trialling zero waste boxes for PPE at 130 of its largest sites across the UK. The boxes are provided by TerraCycle, a company specialising in hard-to-recycle waste, and all types of PPE, including masks, gloves and aprons worn by clinical team members when treating patients, can be disposed of in the boxes as long as they are not contaminated with animal, pharmaceutical or liquid waste.
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Illycaffè and TerraCycle partner in coffee capsule recycling scheme

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Illycaffè has partnered with TerraCycle in a project that will facilitate the collection and recycling of its plastic and aluminium Iperespresso coffee capsules in Europe. The scheme has initially launched in the UK, France, Spain, Austria, The Netherlands and Belgium, where consumers can either post used capsules to TerraCyle or have them collected from home. According to the company, coffee capsules are notorious for their poor environmental credentials and are rarely collected by local councils as the plastic packaging is made up of multiple complex materials that are costly to separate and recycle.
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VTech® and Leapfrog® Partner with TerraCycle to Launch Recycling Program

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VTech® and LeapFrog®, world leaders in state-of-the-art developmental learning products for children, announced the launch of a free, national recycling program for select electronic learning devices and electronic toys, in partnership with international recycling leader TerraCycle. “We are so excited to launch this new recycling program,” said Andy Keimach, President, VTech Electronics North America. “By partnering with TerraCycle, we are making it easier for parents to recycle electronic toys while making inroads to our ongoing sustainability goals for VTech and LeapFrog.” The newly announced recycling program allows fans to easily send in select VTech and LeapFrog electronic learning devices and electronic toys to be properly disposed and recycled. For every shipment sent to TerraCycle, collectors earn points that can be donated to a non-profit, school or charitable organization of their choice. Once collected, the electronic learning devices and electronic toys will be cleaned, melted into hard plastic and remolded to make new products from the recycled materials, such as playgrounds, picnic tables and park benches. “TerraCycle’s mission has always been to ‘Eliminate the Idea of Waste’ and we’ve proven that solutions do exist for items that may seem difficult to recycle – even e-waste,” said Tom Szaky, TerraCycle Founder and CEO. “VTech and LeapFrog not only share our commitment but have taken it to the next level through recycling initiatives like the VTech & LeapFrog Toys Recycling Program. Together we are partnering to reduce the impact of this type of waste on the environment, help pave the way for a greener future and protect the planet for the next generation.”
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VTech and LeapFrog partner with TerraCycle to recycle electronic learning devices

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VTech and LeapFrog, leaders in developmental learning products for children, have launched a free, national recycling program for select electronic learning devices and electronic toys, in partnership with international recycling leader TerraCycle. "We are so excited to launch this new recycling program," said Andy Keimach, President, VTech Electronics North America. "By partnering with TerraCycle, we are making it easier for parents to recycle electronic toys while making inroads to our ongoing sustainability goals for VTech and LeapFrog." The newly announced recycling program allows fans to easily send in select VTech and LeapFrog electronic learning devices and electronic toys to be properly disposed and recycled. For every shipment sent to TerraCycle, collectors earn points that can be donated to a non-profit, school or charitable organization of their choice. To participate in the program, there are three simple steps:
  • Sign up on the TerraCycle program page.
  • On the VTech and LeapFrog page, click to submit product.  At that point, a prepaid shipping label will populate.
  • Completely fill any shipping box with VTech and LeapFrog electronic learning devices and electronic toys, affix the shipping label and ship the box to TerraCycle to be recycled.
Once collected, the electronic learning devices and electronic toys will be cleaned, melted into hard plastic and remolded to make new products from the recycled materials, such as playgrounds, picnic tables and park benches. "TerraCycle's mission has always been to ‘Eliminate the Idea of Waste' and we've proven that solutions do exist for items that may seem difficult to recycle - even e-waste," said Tom Szaky, TerraCycle Founder and CEO. "VTech and LeapFrog not only share our commitment but have taken it to the next level through recycling initiatives like the VTech & LeapFrog Toys Recycling Program. Together we are partnering to reduce the impact of this type of waste on the environment, help pave the way for a greener future and protect the planet for the next generation."
 
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VTech and LeapFrog Partner with TerraCycle to Launch Recycling Program

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TRENTON, NJ / AGILITYPR.NEWS / November 03, 2020 / Customers Can Recycle Their VTech® and LeapFrog® Toys for Free Through National Program   Today VTech® and LeapFrog®, world leaders in state-of-the-art developmental learning products for children, announced the launch of a free, national recycling program for select electronic learning devices and electronic toys, in partnership with international recycling leader TerraCycle.   “We are so excited to launch this new recycling program,” said Andy Keimach, President, VTech Electronics North America. “By partnering with TerraCycle, we are making it easier for parents to recycle electronic toys while making inroads to our ongoing sustainability goals for VTech and LeapFrog.”   The newly announced recycling program allows fans to easily send in select VTech and LeapFrog electronic learning devices and electronic toys to be properly disposed and recycled. For every shipment sent to TerraCycle, collectors earn points that can be donated to a non-profit, school or charitable organization of their choice.   To participate in the program, there are three simple steps:  
  •  Sign Up! – Sign up on the TerraCycle program page at https://www.terracycle.com/en-US/brigades/vtech-leapfrog.
  • Print the Shipping Label – On the VTech and LeapFrog page, click to submit product. At that point, a prepaid shipping label will populate.
  • Ship the Box – Completely fill any shipping box with VTech and LeapFrog electronic learning devices and electronic toys, affix the shipping label and ship the box to TerraCycle to be recycled.
  Once collected, the electronic learning devices and electronic toys will be cleaned, melted into hard plastic and remolded to make new products from the recycled materials, such as playgrounds, picnic tables and park benches.   “TerraCycle’s mission has always been to ‘Eliminate the Idea of Waste’ and we’ve proven that solutions do exist for items that may seem difficult to recycle – even e-waste,” said Tom Szaky, TerraCycle Founder and CEO. “VTech and LeapFrog not only share our commitment but have taken it to the next level through recycling initiatives like the VTech & LeapFrog Toys Recycling Program. Together we are partnering to reduce the impact of this type of waste on the environment, help pave the way for a greener future and protect the planet for the next generation.”   The VTech® & LeapFrog® Toys Recycling Program is open to any individual, school, office, or community organization interested. For more information on this initiative and TerraCycle’s other recycling programs, visit www.terracycle.com.  
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VTech VTech is a world leader in age-appropriate and developmental stage-based electronic learning products for children. As a pioneer in the learning toy category, VTech develops high-quality, innovative educational products that enrich children's development and make learning fun. With a rich 40 year history, VTech has not only established itself as a learning authority but also consistently remains at the forefront of innovation with multiple award-winning products, including prestigious Toy of the Year (TOTY) Award winners. The company also has a broad range of award-winning infant, toddler and preschool products available in 28 different languages worldwide, with more than 100 new products introduced every year. In order to further strengthen VTech's position as a learning authority, new products are developed with critical insights from a dedicated team of in-house learning experts.   VTech Electronics North America, L.L.C. is based in Arlington Heights, Illinois. VTech Electronics Limited is headquartered in Hong Kong with distribution globally.   For more information about VTech's electronic learning products, visit www.VTechKids.com, www.facebook.com/VTechtoys on Facebook or follow @VTechToys on Twitter.   LeapFrog LeapFrog Enterprises, Inc. is the leader in innovative learning toys for children that encourage a child's curiosity and love of learning throughout their early developmental journey. For more than 20 years, LeapFrog has helped children expand their knowledge and imagination through award-winning products that combine state-of-the-art educational expertise led by the LeapFrog Learning Team, innovative technology, and engaging play – turning playtime into quality time that helps children leap ahead. LeapFrog's proprietary learning tablets and ground-breaking developmental games, learn to read and write systems, interactive learning toys and more are designed to create personalized experiences that encourage, excite and build confidence in children. LeapFrog is a subsidiary of VTech Holdings Limited, which is based in Hong Kong. LeapFrog was founded in 1995 by a father who revolutionized technology-based learning solutions to help his child learn how to read. Learn more at www.leapfrog.com.information on your computer.   TerraCycle TerraCycle is an innovative waste management company with a mission to eliminate the idea of waste. Operating nationally across 21 countries, TerraCycle partners with leading consumer product companies, retailers and cities to recycle products and packages, from dirty diapers to cigarette butts, that would otherwise end up being landfilled or incinerated. In addition, TerraCycle works with leading consumer product companies to integrate hard to recycle waste streams, such as ocean plastic, into their products and packaging. Its new division, Loop, is the first shopping system that gives consumers a way to shop for their favorite brands in durable, reusable packaging. TerraCycle has won over 200 awards for sustainability and has donated over $44 million to schools and charities since its founding more than 15 years ago and was named #10 in Fortune magazine’s list of 52 companies Changing the World. To learn more about TerraCycle or get involved in its recycling programs, please visit www.terracycle.com.
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