Beauty brand Garnier launches limited-edition rPET bottle
Beauty brand Garnier has launched a limited-edition recycled PET (rPET) bottle made from non-recyclable plastic waste for its micellar cleansing water all-in-one cleanser. Loop Industries supplies the rPET resin for the bottles.
Loop, based in Terrebonne, Quebec, produces resin using its Infinite Loop technology. Loop uses low heat to depolymerize PET waste without adding pressure - especially plastics that cannot be recycled using traditional recycling processes, as well as low-value waste such as colored and opaque PET bottles.
The company then repolymerizes the monomers into 100% recycled virgin-quality PET resin, suitable for food-grade packaging and polyester fiber applications. According to Loop, post-consumer packaging made from the material, if properly sorted, is infinitely recyclable.
A major benefit of making PET from non-recyclable waste is preventing waste in landfills, oceans and incinerators. Another benefit is the circularity of plastic through post-consumer recycling.
Loop Industries' Terrebonne production facility supplied rPET for Garnier's limited-edition bottles, which were molded in Poland and filled at Garnier's Warsaw facility.
A Garnier spokesperson reported that the caps are currently polypropylene (PP), but "we are working on launching caps made from recycled PP in micellar clean water".
For consumer information, the front of the limited-edition Garnier bottle displays the Loop logo, along with language explaining that the bottle is made from 100% recycled PET.
