Plastic- free Brands 

Plastic Issue  

Do you know that there are approximately 250 million tons of trash produced in the United States annually?

🙉 More than 85% of plastic waste ends up in landfills, where plastics can take hundreds or thousands of years to decompose.

🙊 Consider the lifespan of these popular plastic products: 🌍
➡️ Plastic Water Bottle: 450 years
➡️ Disposable Diaper: 500 years
➡️ Plastic 6-Pack Collar: 450 Years
➡️ Extruded Polystyrene Foam: over 5,000 years!!

Conventional Packaging

120 billion units of beauty packaging are created annually, and most plastics take 400 years to break down. All those packages put together travel the same distance as it would take to circle the Earth 270 times!

By 2050 there will be more plastic in the ocean than fish plus 18 million acres of forest are lost to the beauty industry annually!

It is up to us to pick and reward companies that are taking the extra steps to reduce their carbon footprint, resources, waste, and emissions, to pack their products in more sustainable and environmentally-friendly packaging!

The companies embrace circular sustainability: next-gen sustainable packaging

Plastic packaging, foams, and tapes 

​Plastic-free Material

🌿 100% recycled and recyclable: material not designed for only 1-time use. they can be repurposed properly.

🌿 Glass: Upcyclable and recyclable glass container is an eco-friendly way to store products without toxins

Bamboo: Biodegradable and compostable bamboo is used for cap and tube keys 

🌿 Aluminum Tins: They are recyclable and reusable tins

🌿 Compostable eco-pulp outer packaging: recyclable, compostable with 90 days made with renewable natural plant fibers: sugarcane bagasse, wood pulp, wheat straws pulp, wastepaper. Manufactured without harmful gases, toxic liquor, or waste residue. Lightweight, strong, flexible, and all-natural.

🌿 PCR aluminum container or tubes: PCR post-consumer recycled aluminum is a strong and resistant material, it can be recycled infinitely. 

​🌿 Bio Resin Tube with PCR Cap: Bio Resin is sustainably produced from sugar cane crops which captures CO2 from the atmosphere vs. traditional petroleum which releases CO2.  It helps reduce greenhouse gases and reduce carbon footprint.  The sugar cane tube is 100 % recyclable and with a PCR resin Cap. My fav brand is Raw Elements 

Sugarcane plastic: Miessence 

🌿 PIR post-industrial Recycled material: It is material that has been reused within a company’s manufactory process. 

🌿 Labels: compostable and biodegradable labels 

🌿 Mailer bag: compatible and biodegradable with eco peanuts 

🌿 Eco tape:

Plastic-free Brands 

🌎 We can all be a part of this amazing eco-friendly movement that is reaching more and more people every day! Here are extra tools: 

PLASTIC-free 

🥤Reusable straws

🥡Eco 100% food-grade silicone storage bags 

👙 Reusable razors 

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MICROPLASTIC-free

Eco glitter! Conventional glitter is made of microplastic and aluminum. 

 51 trillion microplastic particles are found in the world’s oceans. 

MICROFIBERS pollution

Washer filter to prevent washing out synthetic microfibers from polyester and acrylic clothing going down the drain 

Choose organic cotton clothing 

Organic mattress 

PESTICIDES-free food

Shop USDA Certified organic food!

PALM OIL

Palm oil-free products 

Which is responsible for deforestation 

📪 JUNK MAIL – free

Junk mail-free: 11.6 Billion pounds of junk mail is delivered yearly. Sign-up for online paperless billing. Return junk mail unopened and write on the envelope: “Refused. Return to sender.” Extra tips on my blog.

🐠REEF FRIENDLY sunscreens

Reef-friendly sunscreen. Conventional sunscreens containing oxybenzone, oxtinoxate, and octisalate are responsible for bleaching our precious coral reefs. Choose mineral sunscreen and kip sunscreen spray, toxic to our lungs.

💦BLEACH alternative

Bleach alternative: Chlorine bleach is linked to ozone depletion, air, and water pollution, endangering local wildlife and marine life. 

🏊‍♀CHLORINE-free and chemical-free pools

Chlorine-free and chemicals-free swimming pools, known as natural pools or ponds, with plant filtration ​

DRY CLEANERS 

Choose dry cleaners that use only 1 of these 2 methods: CO2 or wet cleaning. Avoid all other ones, which are polluting and toxic to us! 

Now you have all of my tips to embrace an eco-friendly lifestyle that respects us and our planet!