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Sustainable living is on everyone’s minds at the moment. And the beauty industry is not exempt from making big shifts in its use of resources. Consider this: By 2025, 1.8 billion people will be living in countries where water scarity is an absolute concern, with two-thirds of the global population potentially living under water-stressed conditions. With an estimated eight million tonnes of plastic ending up in the oceans every year, the United Nations predicts that we’ll have more plastic than fish in our oceans by 2050.
Beauty Has a Role to Play
The plastic problem isn’t just for environmentalists and alternative folk to worry about. It’s serious — and it’s everyone’s problem. The ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies has found that corals are now dying due to disease caused by plastic.
And according to the…