THE WHAT Kao Corporation has begun the field testing of in-store collection and recycling of used bottles, aiming to achieve material recycling of cosmetics bottles that are made from plastic.
THE DETAILS The initiative will take place until 31st July, with used cosmetics bottles collected at retail outlets directly run by Aeon in the Kanto region of Japan that sell Twany brand products, and at Colour Studio cosmetics retail outlets in Aeon malls.
The bottles will then be used for field testing of material recycling to turn used cosmetics bottles into new cosmetics bottles, utilizing the Bring Technology chemical recycling technology of Jeplan.
THE WHY Focusing on fighting the single-use plastic crisis, the first stage of the project was initiated in June 2021, with Kao beginning to use chemically recycled PET material that had been manufactured by Jeplan PET Refine Technology to make bottles for Twany brand cosmetics.
It was confirmed that the recycled material could be used to manufacture beautiful packaging with an equivalent level of quality to those made from virgin PET material.
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