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A beauty laundry system to help you recycle your beauty product containers so that as little as possible ends up in landfill.
If all of us use our Empties Bag, we will reduce the problem of excess landfill waste from beauty products. Here’s how it works:
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A beauty laundry system to help you dispose of your beauty product containers so that as little as possible ends up in landfill.
HOW To use
If all of us use our Empties Bag, we will reduce the problem of excess landfill waste from beauty products.
Here’s how it works:
Inner Packaging
Separate all components. Clean thoroughly ensuring that there’s no product residue and allow to dry.
Paper box with paper insert – both made from sustainable paper source; dispose of both in paper recycling.
Inner Packaging
Separate all components. Clean thoroughly ensuring that there’s no product residue and allow to dry.
Paper box with a thin layer of lamination and a paper insert – both made from sustainable paper source. Dispose of the box in general waste; dispose of the insert in paper recycling.
Inner Packaging
Separate all components. Clean thoroughly ensuring that there’s no product residue and allow to dry.
Paper cylinder made with 100% recycled paper; dispose of the whole cylinder in paper recycling.
Inner Packaging
Separate all components. Clean thoroughly ensuring that there’s no product residue and allow to dry.
New & improved design: paper cylinder made with 100% recycled paper, with no lamination and no foam insert; dispose of the whole cylinder in paper recycling.
(Legacy cylinders are made with 100% recycled paper but have a thin layer of lamination and a foam insert. Dispose of this type of cylinders in general waste.)
Inner Packaging
Separate all components. Cut the tube at the top seam. Clean the tube thoroughly ensuring that there’s no product residue and allow to dry.
Paper box with paper insert – both made from sustainable paper source; dispose of both in paper recycling.
Inner Packaging
Separate all components. Clean thoroughly ensuring that there’s no product residue and allow to dry.
New & improved design: paper cylinder made with 100% recycled paper, with no lamination and no foam insert; dispose of the whole cylinder in paper recycling.
(Legacy cylinders are made with 100% recycled paper but have a thin layer of lamination and a foam insert. Dispose of this type of cylinders in general waste.)
Inner Packaging
Separate all components. Clean thoroughly ensuring that there’s no product residue and allow to dry.
Paper cylinder made with 100% recycled paper. Remove the foam insert and dispose of in general waste; dispose of the rest of the cylinder in paper recycling.
Inner Packaging
Separate the cap and the pump top. Clean these components thoroughly ensuring that there’s no product residue and allow to dry.
Paper cylinder made with 100% recycled paper; dispose of the whole cylinder in paper recycling.
Inner Packaging
Separate all components. Clean thoroughly ensuring that there’s no product residue and allow to dry.
Paper box with paper insert – both made from sustainable paper source; dispose of both in paper recycling.
Inner Packaging
Separate all components. Clean thoroughly ensuring that there’s no product residue and allow to dry.
Inner Packaging
Separate all components. Clean thoroughly ensuring that there’s no product residue and allow to dry.
Paper box with a thin layer of lamination and a paper insert – both made from sustainable paper source. Dispose of the box in general waste; dispose of the insert in paper recycling.
Inner Packaging
Separate all components. Clean thoroughly ensuring that there’s no product residue and allow to dry.
Inner Packaging
Separate all components. Clean thoroughly ensuring that there’s no product residue and allow to dry.
New & improved design: paper cylinder made with 100% recycled paper, with no lamination and no foam insert; dispose of the whole cylinder in paper recycling.
(Legacy cylinders are made with 100% recycled paper but have a thin layer of lamination and a foam insert. Dispose of this type of cylinders in general waste.)
Inner Packaging
Separate all components. Cut the tube at the top seam. Clean the tube thoroughly ensuring that there’s no product residue and allow to dry.
Paper box with paper insert – both made from sustainable paper source; dispose of both in paper recycling.
Inner Packaging
Separate all components. Clean thoroughly ensuring that there’s no product residue and allow to dry.
Inner Packaging
Separate all components. Clean thoroughly ensuring that there’s no product residue and allow to dry.
New & improved design: paper cylinder made with 100% recycled paper, with no lamination and no foam insert; dispose of the whole cylinder in paper recycling.
(Legacy cylinders are made with 100% recycled paper but have a thin layer of lamination and a foam insert. Dispose of this type of cylinders in general waste.)
Inner Packaging
Separate all components. Clean thoroughly ensuring that there’s no product residue and allow to dry.
Paper box with paper insert – both made from sustainable paper source; dispose of both in paper recycling.
Inner Packaging
Separate all components. Clean thoroughly ensuring that there’s no product residue and allow to dry.
Paper cylinder made with 100% recycled paper. Remove the foam insert and dispose of in general waste; dispose of the rest of the cylinder in paper recycling.
Inner Packaging
Separate the cap and the pump top. Clean these components thoroughly ensuring that there’s no product residue and allow to dry.
Paper cylinder made with 100% recycled paper; dispose of the whole cylinder in paper recycling.
* The Inner Packaging Recycling Advice provided here follows the advice given and approved by Eastern Midlands Regional Waste Office of Republic of Ireland, on recycling glass and hard plastic components of any kind. The recycling facilities and their capabilities will vary from country to country. It is always advised to check with your regional waste management company what types of waste they accept for recycling.
With a family of 7, Pestle & Mortar founder Sonia Deasy became increasingly bothered by the fact that cosmetic containers are not being disposed of properly.
Most people think that they’re disposing their cosmetics containers correctly but the truth is, it’s difficult to know what goes where. Most containers are made up of various parts and not every component is suitable for recycling.
Enter The Empties Bag: A beauty laundry system to help you dispose of your beauty product containers so that as little as possible ends up in landfill.
Pestle & Mortar is committed to being 100% transparent on our sustainability journey. For more information check our Sustainability Page. Customers need to know how to dispose of their beauty containers correctly so they can take intentional action in their daily beauty lives. Hence the hashtag ‘greenwashing’ for The Empties Bag.
Greenwashing is the name given to a false claim that a company makes to misguide consumers into believing that its products are environmentally friendly. We’re turning it on its head. Join us in reducing our landfills of cosmetics containers and let us know about your efforts using #greenwashing.