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"The beauty industry’s eye-watering waste problem is enough to make your
mascara run – but a new online marketplace is tackling the issue head on by
offering cosmetic seconds at bargain prices.
Boop is aiming to do what the ‘wonky’ fruit and veg ethos has done for food
waste by repurposing some of the 90m beauty products thrown away each year in
the UK alone.
That’s the weight of 650 doubledecker buses and equates to 4,500 tonnes of
moisturiser, 1,000 tonnes of mascara, and four Olympic-sized swimming pools
full of perfume. A tenth of that waste occurs in brands’ supply chains and 6.2%
of discarded beauty goods are down to overproduction."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
