You can find microplastics and plastic waste in almost every environment on Earth, whether it’s oceans and state parks or your neighborhood sidewalks and bathroom countertops.

While every industry has work to do in cutting down on packaging waste, the beauty category is specifically detrimental in its environmental impact. According to The British Beauty Council, only 14% of packaging makes it to a recycling plant, only 9% is recycled, and the remaining goes to landfill. Most of this is single-use plastic packaging which can take up to 450 years to break down in said landfill.