Action speaks louder than voice

    

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1 .Starbucks:

July 9, 2018, Starbucks Coffee Company announced that it will eliminate single-use plastic straws from its more than 28,000 company operated and licensed stores by making a strawless lid or alternative-material straw options available, around the world. Starbucks, the largest food and beverage retailer to make such a global commitment, anticipates the will eliminate more than one billion plastic straws per year from Starbucks stores.

2  .The body shop:

        -The Body Shop is stepping up its sustainability efforts with the launch of a new scheme designed to benefit both people and the planet. In a bid to tackle plastic pollution, the high street beauty chain has announced it will purchase 250 tonnes of Community Trade recycled plastic from Bengaluru, India, to use in nearly three million 250ml haircare bottles by the end of 2019. This marks the start of a wider ambition, which is to introduce Community Trade Recycled plastic across all plastic used by The Body Shop within three years.  The brand will also be relaunching its in-store Recycle Rewards scheme, whereby customers can earn vouchers for bringing in their used bottles. Aside from helping fight pollution, the new scheme – which has been launched in collaboration with ethical sourcing platform Plastics For Change – will also serve to empower people. The Body Shop hopes that by using the abundant resource of recyclable plastic that already exists, it will not only tackle the existing problem, but also help to empower waste pickers with access to more sanitary working conditions, a fair price and the respect and recognition they deserve. The new scheme means workers will also get help in accessing services such as education, financial loans and healthcare

                                                                                                                               3.MAC: 

  Perhaps the most well-known of all recycling programs is MAC’s Back to MAC program. Recycling with Back to MAC is simple: All you have to do is bring in six empty “primary containers” (meaning, an empty bottle of foundation, a panned compact or lipstick tube, empty pigment jars — in other words, the actual container that encases the product, rather than the cardboard box it may come in). In exchange for your six empties, you’re entitled to one free lipstick of your choice (valued at $17). If you can’t make it to the store, you can also request an online form and print a mailing label to get your empties out of your vanity (or your handbag) and return it Back to MAC. 

4     4.  Kiehl’s:

       Kiehl’s reward program for recycling — appropriately called Recycle and Be Rewarded — understands that you may not finish all your products at once, and you also probably don’t want to hold onto your empty skincare products. Instead, you can recycle your empties as you finish them, and each time you bring them back to a Kiehl’s store, you’ll get a stamp; once you get 10 stamps, you’re eligible to trade it in for your choice of a travel-size item (worth up to $11). A spokesperson for Kiehl’s tells us that, since introducing the program in 2009, customers have recycled 5,290,865 empties — and last year alone, they brought back an average of 67,683 empties each month. There are a few stipulations, however; only full-size items can be counted as a “stamp” on your rewards card, but that shouldn't stop you from recycling, of course — Kiehl’s will accept any travel-size or complimentary items to be recycled. If you’re a skincare enthusiast, or live in a home with multiple skincare enthusiasts, and are constantly going through products, you can still only collect one reward per month.