Lip balms are some of the most used and most frequently lost personal cosmetics items. Difficult to recycle, empty plastic containers end up in mixed waste and landfills. Up and coming brand above & beyond has solved this dilemma.
Often packaged in plastic, lip balms lost in nature or in urban environments break down over several months and years into microplastics that accumulate in nature
The popularity of tattoos has risen strongly during the last ten years – driven by social media, popular culture and a revolution of values supported especially by Millennials and Gen Z.
From florals, mandalas, elegant fine line tattoos and vegan ink, tattoo culture is undergoing a strong shift away from the traditional imagery often associated with masculine subcultures, such as bikers or gan
Cosmetics packaging elevated – Toly and Sulapac form alliance for sustainable innovation. Now, eco-friendly packaging for compacts is available across the world.
The new take back program transforms used, biobased supplement packages into pet urns that biodegrade without leaving permanent microplastics behind.
Around 90% of the cosmetics market consist of water-based emulsions, and now, Sulapac has invented a patent-pending material for them. It biodegrades without leaving permanent microplastics behind. This has never been done before.
Fazer will bring to the market a new box containing handmade pralines. The packaging makes use of the Finland-based Sulapac’s material innovation, which is compostable and free of microplastics.
Sulapac, a Finnish company listed among the top-100 hottest start-ups in Europe by Wired Magazine, is pleased to announce that the French luxury house Chanel has decided to shoulder its development, thus becoming its first investor coming from the cosmetic industry.
Stora Enso and Sulapac continue to combat the global problem of plastic waste by introducing a demo of a sustainable straw at Slush 2018, a global leading startup event gathering of 20 000 tech enthusiasts. The demo, targeting industrial scale production, is designed to replace traditional plastic straws with renewable ones.