FRANCE – SABIC has joined forces with Stella McCartney Beauty and French plastic converters Texen, Leygatech, and STTP Emballage to develop a set of innovative new skin and eye care refill containers.

SABIC says that the containers are produced with certified renewable polymers from its TRUCIRCLE™ portfolio.

The containers, which have already been introduced in the market in North America and the United Kingdom, are considered a global breakthrough in responsibly sourced and implemented cosmetics packaging.

Abdullah Al-Otaibi, General Manager, ETP & Market Solutions at SABIC said: “This innovation marks a significant step forward in transforming the packaging of cosmetics and skin care products to fully sustainable material alternatives.

“Moreover, it also demonstrates that our certified renewable polymers can facilitate the change-over by providing efficient drop-in solutions with no compromise in processability, purity, quality or convenience.”

The new refill containers have been designed for use with STELLA Alter-Care Serum and Restore Cream.

They feature three SABIC polyolefin resins with a combined mass-balanced certified renewable feedstock content of up to 90% and meet with the vegan branding of the cosmetics manufacturer.

Once the containers have reached the end of their usable lifetime, the material value of the PP and PE polymers can be recovered through established polyolefin recycling – altogether making this a role model of sustainable packaging.

SABIC’s certified renewable polymers include various polypropylene and polyethylene materials derived from second-generation renewable feedstock, that is selected to avoid direct competition with human food and animal feed production and is not linked to any direct or indirect changes in land.

A cradle-to-gate lifecycle analysis has confirmed the superior sustainability of these polymers, concluding that each kg of the company’s bio-based resins reduces CO2emissions by an average of 4 kg as compared to fossil-based virgin alternatives, while at the same time cutting fossil depletion by up to 80 percent.

Last month, SABIC announced that its certified circular PP was used to make packaging for Italian pasta manufacturer Garofalo.

The sustainable material is derived from advanced recycling and converted into a Biaxially Oriented PolyPropylene (BOPP) film for this application, which is the first pasta mono-PP packaging material in the market containing 30 percent of post-consumer recycled (PCR) content.

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