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You Can Finally Recycle Your Quo Beauty Empties at Shoppers Drug Mart

The Canadian retailer has teamed up with Quo Beauty and TerraCycle for this exciting initiative.

by : Lauren Knowles- Mar 25th, 2024

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Just in time for Earth Month, Shoppers Drug Mart has teamed up with Quo Beauty and internationally renowned recycling company TerraCycle to launch a new recycling program.

The cosmetics industry alone is estimated to produce 120 billion units of packaging per year, and the majority of it is unable to be recycled by curbside recycling services.

Living up to Shoppers’ promise to help reduce this plastic waste, the Quo Beauty Cosmetics Free Recycling Program will allow customers to mail in eligible empty Quo Beauty components after registering on the TerraCycle site and downloading a prepaid shipping label.

Keeping plastic packaging out of landfills and incinerators, the cosmetic components are then cleaned, sorted by material type and recycled into raw formats that can be used to make new products.

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“As we work to ensure all control brand packaging is recyclable or reusable by 2025, we continue to look for new and innovative ways to eliminate the use of single-use plastics for all product packaging,” shares Pat Dean, SVP of Category Management at Shoppers Drug Mart in a press statement. “We are proud to partner with TerraCycle as the first major retailer to offer a recycling program for a private label colour cosmetics line, offering more sustainable choices to Canadians and reducing our impact on the planet.”

Eligible Quo Beauty cosmetics components for recycling include plastic and glass tubes, pots, pumps, sprays, jars, lipstick, mascara wands, eyeliner pencils, foundation packaging and more.