Earlier this yr, worldwide administration consulting agency McKinsey & Firm surveyed client perceptions concerning sustainable packaging. It decided that “whereas respondents named hygiene, meals security, and shelf life as a very powerful traits for product packaging when making a purchase order, 43 % of shoppers nonetheless say environmental affect is an especially or essential packaging attribute when making buying selections​.”

This discovering is especially vital to producers and suppliers of the cosmetics and private care product trade, contemplating {that a} examine printed within the scientific journal Polymers​ final yr discovered that “along with the era of waste within the manufacturing processes, there may be appreciable concern concerning those who originate throughout and after the usage of cosmetics, particularly with regard to plastics​.”

In recent times, the examine decided, “there was a marked progress in plastic consumption, with a median annual improve of two.5%., and relating to amount, roughly 355 million tons of consumption are generated yearly​.”

It may be moderately inferred that the cosmetics and private care product industries have an moral duty to fulfill the rising calls for of shoppers to scale back plastic consumption all through the provision chain, particularly in product packaging. To be taught extra about a few of the most urgent challenges to remediate plastic use in beauty and private care product packaging, in addition to a few of the options at the moment being developed to deal with this difficulty, CosmeticsDesign spoke to Brandon Frank, Proprietor of Pacific Packaging Parts, Inc. for his insights.