The Body Shop launches plastic recycling campaign

The Body Shop launched the first initiative to recycle plastic fairly in cooperation with a non-profit organization that includes 2500 individuals who work in the collection of plastic called The Organization Harisu Dalla  In the city of Bangalore - India, where The Body Shop is working through this campaign to be a support on the human level and an effective element in the field of the plastic disaster, which has escalated into a highly potential environmental disaster if action is not taken quickly to avoid its negative impact on our planet.

The Body Shop fights beyond the limits of the catastrophe of environmental pollution with plastics. It supports people who work in the field of plastic collectors and supports them in order to enhance their ability and their right to secure a stable resource for their families.

In order to shed more light on this campaign, a statue of recycled plastic was designed for an Indian woman named Dolly who works in collecting plastics. Clean for us and our children.

Our planet is drowning in plastic. We have to intervene quickly and effectively in this regard, as there are more than three billion people who live without regulating consumption or recycling of the plastic consumed by them, and this number constitutes half of the planet’s population, which made these organizations come to clean the world of plastic, that Most of the workers in this field are women who live below the poverty level, and they constitute the largest group working to secure their daily bread in order to secure the needs of their family members. Therefore, the first complex trading organization that recycles plastic “PLASTIC FOR CHANG” was launched in cooperation with the

This cooperation was undertaken in order to pursue the plastic disaster and control it so that the damages would not be exacerbated on the level of humans and the earth, and the rights of its workers would be preserved and a stable resource secured for them and their families, improving their working conditions, securing their rights to education, obtaining health insurance and financial loans to improve their lives in addition to working in an appropriate and healthy atmosphere full of respect they deserve.

The Body Shop takes it upon itself to recycle the plastic purchased from this organization to be used in the manufacture of packaging

Its products were the Shea hair care group, in packages of 250 ml, the first product to enter into its production 15% of the plastic taken

PLASTIC FOR CHANG RECYCLED BY ORGANIZATION

Now containers for empty containers have been placed in all The Body Shop stores in five countries England, Australia, Canada, France and Germany  Terra Cycle To recycle it and benefit from it, as a cooperation was made with the TerraCycle Organization

Which will recycle the plastic collected from customers and recycled locally. As for the plastic parts that cannot be recycled, they will be converted into benches or water tanks in parks.

In the UAE, we invite our valued customers to bring the empty body shop packages and put them in the designated containers in our stores in order to recycle them in cooperation with the Emirates Environmental Group Organization, where every 100 kilos of collected plastic will be replaced with a tree to be planted to restore life to a land from which we took a lot.