PACKAGING AND MICROPLASTICS IN COSMETICS - Working group

The transformation of the packaging industry is already underway. The consumer products industry is now organized around the use of an increasing proportion of recycled materials as well as a lower quantity of plastic materials in packaging.

On June 30, Cosmetic Valley organized a first digital working group on the subject of PACKAGING AND MICROPLASTICS IN COSMETICS with the intervention of ECOMUNDO and IPC. Key background information to remember:

Case of packaging

• The European “Single Use Plastic” (SUP) Directive of June 5, 2019

Ban on the marketing of certain products: Cotton swabs; Covered ; Plates; Straws; drink stirrer sticks;

Rods intended to be attached, as a support, to balloons; expanded polystyrene food containers; beverage containers and cups made of expanded polystyrene;

By 2025, beverage bottles must contain 25% recycled plastics

• National plastic packaging pact (February 21, 2019) with a collective commitment to incorporate an average of 30% recycled plastic materials in packaging by publicly sharing the target rate and its progress by 2025. Objective to collectively reach 60% of plastic packaging effectively recycled by 2022

• French Anti-Waste Law for a Circular Economy (known as AGEC) (Law n°2020-105 of February 10, 2020) to End marketing of single-use plastic packaging by 2040

Case of microplastics

• In 2021, a ban on the marketing of substances or mixtures containing concentrations of À¢"°Âª Microplastic À¢"°Â« ≥ 0.01% m/m will be implemented.

For now, the following products are exempt from this ban:

• Microplastics based on Polymers of natural origin (Present in nature and not chemically modified (other than by hydrolysis))
• Microplastics based on Biodegradable Polymers (Capable of mineralizing in the environment under the action of microorganisms)
• Substances and mixtures containing Microplastics

• This regulation linked to REACH leads to actions in the cosmetics sector.

In all sectors and in particular in the cosmetics/perfumery sector, this is causing industrial upheavals with particular technical, economic and environmental challenges to be met.

ACT COLLECTIVELY

By setting up working groups, Cosmetic Valley wishes to bring together all the players in the sector (materials producers, packaging producers, producer of finished cosmetic products, researchers, etc.) in order to work together on setting up structuring projects.

We thank you for answering the following form in order to indicate to us on which subject it seems relevant to you to work and if you would be inclined to carry out a collective work:

https://forms.gle/6UMw9iKuGjRAiCEp6

Thank you in advance for your participation