The M&S beauty takeback scheme run by Marks & Spencer (M&S) and specialist recycling company Handle is now, or soon will be, available in 100 stores.
This week, the retailer announced it was extending the trial of the service from the 40 stores that began collecting waste beauty packaging last year as part of the launch of its ‘Another life’ circularity programme.
According to the retailer, M&S beauty takeback scheme boxes are now available in stores located at Birmingham Bullring, Cardiff, Inverness and many others. These boxes collect any form of plastic or aluminium beauty packaging – from bottles and tubes to caps, pumps, and tubs, from any brand or retailer – and then Handle processes the would-be waste.
Since launch, the scheme has processed more than 1.6 tonnes of beauty packaging, and through the Handle partnership, M&S is now selling a wide-toothed hair comb made from 98% recycled packaging. That comb can be purchased at M&S online and in selected stores for £8.
Katharine Beacham, head of sustainability, clothing & home at M&S, commented: “At M&S, we want to play our part in driving a more circular economy and the circularity services we offer are key to this.
“Since launching last year, our beauty takeback scheme has proven hugely popular, providing a convenient option for customers to recycle their beauty products. We’re delighted to be able to introduce the scheme to even more of our stores across the UK this month, to enable them to give their empty beauty packaging another life.”
The ‘Another life’ focus at M&S brings all of M&S’s circularity services together in one place. The M&S beauty takeback scheme sits alongside the repair partnership with Sojo, and the retailer’s long-running clothes donation partnership with Oxfam.
The beauty takeback scheme is now, or soon will be, available in the following M&S stores:
- Aintree
- Ashton Moss
- Basingstoke
- Bexhill
- Brent Cross
- Brotherhood shopping park, Peterborough
- Bullring in Birmingham
- Bury The Rock
- Canterbury
- Cardiff
- Carlisle
- Chichester
- Colliers Wood
- Croydon
- Deepdale Preston
- Derby
- Derbion shopping centre in Derby
- Durham Arnison
- Ealing Broadway
- Exeter
- Fargate Sheffield
- Finsbury Pavement
- Gloucester
- Guildford
- Halifax
- Havant
- Inverness
- Kensington
- Kinnaird Edinburgh
- Leamington
- Middlebrook Bolton
- Newport retail park
- Norwich
- Orbita
- Swindon
- Perth
- Plymouth
- Purley
- Reading
- Romford
- Rushden Lakes
- Scunthorpe retail park
- Sevenoaks
- Solihull Sears
- Southampton West Quay
- Stirling
- Stane Park Colchester
- Sutton
- Tamworth
- Taunton
- Teeside
- Torbay
- Tunbridge Wells
- Watford
- Westwood Cross
- Worcester
- Worthing
- Yeovil
The scheme continues to be available in: Argyle St Glasgow; Bath; Bluewater; Bromley; Brooklands; Camberley; Castlepoint; Cheltenham; Cheshire Oaks; Cheshunt; Cribbs Causeway; Culverhouse Cross; Fosse Park; Gyle shopping centre; Gemini retail park; Handforth; Harrogate; Hedge End; Kingston; Leeds; Leeds White Rose; Liverpool; London Colney; Longbridge; Manchester; Marble Arch; Meadowhall; Merryhill; Metro Centre; Milton Keynes; Newcastle; Nottingham; Pantheon; Pudsey; Shoreham; Stratford City; Thurrock; White City; Wolstanton; and Vangarde Monks Cross.
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