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Last year, we launched a partnership with beauty recycling experts HANDLE to launch a Beauty Takeback Scheme in over 40 of our stores across the UK. In the latest of our Clothing & Home sustainability stories, find out how the team are supporting our Plan A roadmap by enabling hard to recycle beauty packaging and materials - that commonly end up in landfill - are giving them another life. #PlanA #ESG #SustainabilityStories

Exciting day at JC Moulding yesterday! 📹 We had a film crew onsite for M&S and HANDLE who make products made from 100% #RecycledMaterials. We're proud to be part of their #Sustainable approach to design and manufacture! ♻ #UKManufacturing #InjectionMoulding

The FuturePlus community includes a wide range of businesses which have made a commitment to improving their sustainability. Today we feature some of the product-makers who are currently using the FuturePlus platform to measure, report and improve their sustainability across our five key themes: Climate, Environment, Social, Economic, and Diversity and Inclusion. Featuring: SURI, Oxwash, Dr.PAWPAW, Grind | Certified B Corp, BLOCKHEAD, Grub Club Pets, Wildsmith Skin, Arksen Labs, Wash With Leaf, HANDLE and Evolve Organic Beauty. - #Sustainability #SustainabilityReporting #SustainableBusiness #ItAllAddsUp

WARNING : ALL BEAUTY 2024 ADVENT CALENDARS MUST BE MADE FROM RECYCLED MATERIAL, OR BE FULLY RECYCLABLE!! This is a headline that we hope to see soon. Over 1 Million Beauty Advent calendars are sold every Christmas in the UK, everyone's at it, from Vogue to Liberty, Dr Barbara Sturm to John Lewis. If they averaged 24 products, that means a staggering 24 Million products will be pushed out into Beauty's Black Hole. So to help beauty brands/retailers/consumers and the planet, we will provide a FREE bag for every advent calendar that includes a Handle beauty accessory (made from beauty waste). We want to make beauty advent calendars speak to materials reuse. Why not allow your customers to send back their used and empty calendars for us to turn into a new accessory for your 2025 Calendar! Please tag in your favourite branded Beauty Advent Calendar provider and tell them about this offer. #circularadventcalendars #materialsreuse #behaviouralchange

Unsold stock and customer returns pose a real challenge to retailers when it comes to recycling. Retailers who want to do the right thing face challenges over brand IP in reselling, product safety / risk of contamination or the lack of available options to recycle filled product. The financial and environmental cost of the current situation is eye watering. Yesterday I was at SpaceNK Apothecary DC, talking to team on how we go about this problem. An incredible team from HQ joined us in learning more about packaging types and options for recycling. The hardest problems are solved people refuse to hear ‘no’ and replace with ‘what if’. Tells us below if this issue is important for you? #changethroughaction #sustainablebeauty #makingbeautybetter #