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A New Year and looking at two products that could possibly use and are sustainable with eco-friendly practices, as we begin the year 2022.

What are Starbucks environmental goals, had searched on this:

Starbucks announces coffee-specific environmental goals

Starbucks announces coffee-specific environmental goals

In 2020 Starbucks committed to a resource-positive future, formalizing environmental goals to cut its carbon, water, and waste footprints by half.

Their commitment is seen from the Sustainability timeline.

Sustainability Timeline - Starbucks Stories

Some places are looking at their plastic straws and possibly not having plastic straws at all, or perhaps changing to recyclable paper straws, and this was what Starbucks Japan did:

Starbucks Eliminates Plastic Straws in Japan Beginning January 2020

Starbucks Eliminates Plastic Straws in Japan Beginning January 2020 - Starbucks Stories

I also found this to be an ingenious idea! :

Starbucks Strawless Lids Now Available Across the U.S. and Canada

What I found interesting is “Starbucks designed, developed, and manufactured its strawless lid, which will now be the standard for all iced coffee, tea, espresso, and Starbucks Refreshers^® beverages. The lid was modeled after the lid customers recognize from Starbucks hot drinks and has approximately nine percent less plastic than the flat lid and straw historically used for iced beverages. Unlike straws that cannot be recycled because of their size, the strawless lid made from polypropylene, meets the Association of Plastic Recyclers design guidelines for recyclability and can be recycled in many markets in the U.S. and Canada.”

Starbucks Strawless Lids Now Available Across the U.S. and Canada - Starbucks Stories

From Starbucks to brighten the New Year, another product to usher in the Lunar New Year, is ESTA Sanitisers.

ESTA products of Sanitisers, Hand Sanitisers to now Foaming Hand Soap, are ideal for the spring cleaning and suitable for gifts for any occasion and for individual protection. On top of this, ESTA’s new technology UltraBactech has been certified to target and kill 99.999% of SARS-CoV-2 Covid-19 virus within minutes.

ESTA products are eco-friendly and environmentally friendly, because ESTA’s clean label extraction technology transforms botanical sources into natural antimicrobial agents, combining Natural Botanicals and Food By-products, with no toxic waste released.

ESTA Sustainable and ethical Sourcing is such that ESTA Technology procures for raw materials with detailed care, to reduce wastage. ESTA Technology hopes to achieve a closed loop manufacturing by transforming food by-products into useful antimicrobial agents.

ESTA with the patented formula UltraBactech, is certified to effective – OliveandLatte

https://es-ta.com

7 October 2021 / Yves Rocher has their Green programme and commitments,

https://www.yvesrocher.ca/actbeautiful/tag/ourcommitments

and talking about the Green Heroes eco-friendly product range for instance,

Act Beautiful - The Green Heroes, our eco-friendly products! - Yves Rocher

The bottles are made of 100% recycled plastic. Since October 2020, 100% of the bottles that leave Yves Rocher factories are made of 100% recycled and recyclable Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET), with the exception of service capsules, labels and pumps.

For the Yves Rocher Green Heroes, the concentrated Shower Gel allows for a little amount for sufficient usage and is also biodegradable.

In the Green Heroes product range, the 60g solid shampoo is the equivalent of two 300ml liquid shampoos and as such is more respectful to the environment.

Act Beautiful - More responsible product packaging - Yves Rocher

When we buy a Green Hero Product, Yves Rocher will plant a tree.

With their formulas, packaging and composition, their Green Heroes products are meant to be quite desirable eco-friendly products! And for every Green Hero product purchased, the Yves Rocher Foundation plants a tree!

In fact, Yves Rocher Foundation has already planted more than 100,000,000 trees all over the world.

PlantForLife - Fondation Yves Rocher (yves-rocher-fondation.org)

29 August 2021 / L'occitane Big Little Things Recycling

https://sg.loccitane.com/recycling-big-little-things

I found this to be useful, and that the brand L'occitane has been active in their green initiatives.

One of their programmes is the Big Little Things Recycling program, and has an extensive list on any beauty products that you would be able to recycle at the stores.

How does Big Little Things campaign work, ie the full details:

https://sg.loccitane.com/recycling-big-little-things

https://sg.loccitane.com/pages?fdid=recycling-big-little-things

Bring in the beauty empties from ANY of the brands and drop them off at L'occitane’s recycling stores to collect stamps and to redeem for gifts.

Here’s how to get started:

https://m.facebook.com/loccitane.sg/videos/166941722168664/?refsrc=deprecated&_rdr