The festive season is usually a time for overconsumption and extra. From luxurious meals, to dazzling decorations, and lavish presents, going overboard is a seasonal custom.
Though it’s essentially the most great time of the 12 months for the Christmas-lovers amongst us, the identical sadly can’t be stated for the setting. A staggering 120 billion items of packaging are produced yearly by the worldwide cosmetics business – and the vacation season definitely performs its half (Zero Waste, 2021). Plus, with 40 per cent of Brits admitting that they don’t frequently recycle their toilet waste, our planet is paying the worth.
Worse nonetheless, any beauty presents that we do obtain are often wrapped in copious quantities of wrapping paper, fixed with fancy ribbons and parcelled up in a plastic and paper present bag. Irrespective of what number of instances we remind family and friends that we’d be proud of some brown paper or an previous newspaper, gift-givers simply can’t appear to get sufficient of O.T.T. wrapping and glitter galore.
For those who’re fortunate sufficient to obtain some Tropic treats this Christmas, know that we’ve carried out the whole lot we will to make our packaging as recyclable, reusable and refillable as doable. However the sustainability doesn’t need to cease there! Why not add some Tropic-al type to your private home by upcycling your empties? Right here’s a rundown of our favorite upcycling concepts – tried and examined by the Tropic staff, in fact!
Bag a bookmark
For those who haven’t seen this 12 months’s gorgeously designed festive collections, the place have you ever been? Crafted by among the world’s prime designers, these restricted version units are actual masterpieces. It might be legal to throw such elegant packaging away, so why not strive remodeling it into a stupendous bookmark? Or, move on the love by slicing the cardboard into further particular present tags.
Jazz up your jars
No person likes operating out of Physique Clean Refreshing Polish – but it surely’s not all unhealthy information. Swill out the jar to create the right plant pot in your favorite creeper or succulent.
Not green-fingered? To not fear! These jars add rustic attraction to do-it-yourself jams or chutneys, make nifty pen pots, or are perfect for in a single day oats on the go!
All bottled up
Doubling up as mini vases for all your home plant offcuts, empty serum bottles are vivid additions to any room. Plus, you should use the glass pipette to water your crops with pinpoint precision. You’ll have a propagation station very quickly!
For a house that smells pretty much as good because it seems, put your favorite diffuser sticks into the empty bottles. Sustainable, fashionable and sublimely scented – thank us later.
Go balmy
All out of balm? Stay calm. Remodel your private home into a comfortable sanctuary by popping a tea mild into the empty pots – they’ll mild up any room!
Or, for those who’re responsible of abandoning the day’s jewelry and hair grips randomly earlier than mattress every evening (solely to get up and overlook the place they’re) use these pots to maintain the whole lot in a single place. Organised? We wish to assume so.
We will’t wait to see all of your upcycling tasks. Do not forget to share your snaps with us utilizing #LOVETROPIC for an opportunity to be featured on our socials!
