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Selection of beauty products

Accepted items

We accept any hard-to-recycle plastic, metal and soda-lime glass beauty packaging:

  • Facial skincare: Lip balm tubes, face soap dispensers and tubes, lotion bottles, lotion tubes, lotion dispensers and jars, non-pressurized shaving foam tubes, lip gloss tubes
  • Makeup packaging: Mascara tubes, plastic eyeliner pencils and cases, eye shadow tubes, concealer tubes and lipsticks. 
  • Other cosmetics: Empty perfume bottles, empty nail varnish bottles, nail polish remover bottles
  • Hair care products: Shampoo bottles and caps, conditioner bottles and caps, hair gel tubes and caps, non-pressurized hair spray bottles, hair paste plastic jars and caps

Some of the accepted waste may be recycled kerbside. For these types of waste, we encourage you to opt for local council collection as you'll have more room for products and/or packaging that can't be.

Non-Accepted items

  • Aerosol cans
  • Plant-based or biodegradable plastics (i.e. PLA), wood or bamboo products
  • Sheet masks for face, hands and feet
  • Products and packaging with more than 5% product residue
  • Hazardous waste (sharp, flammable, reactive, corrosive, ignitable, toxic, infectious or pathogenic) which presents a danger to the environment, or to people
  • Batteries, pressurised canisters, broken glass and medical waste

How to return my bag

Log in to your account to request an InPost shipping QR code and drop off your bag at your nearest InPost Locker - if you're dropping off multiple bags, remember it's one bag per locker.

How we recycle

Each Zero Waste Bag is opened upon receipt and visually inspected for any non-compliant materials, then consolidated for processing in bulk.

Consolidated materials are size-reduced through shredding and cleaned in temperature-regulated water baths with agitation and surfactants to remove residual product or other contaminants. Clean plastics are mixed with other plastics to make recycled plastic blends that are then used by various manufacturers to make new products.

Click bellow to find out more about our recycling process.