What if all made sense about sustainability and marketing

Sustainability is no silver bullet. Yet, you need to implement it NOW, in your brand portfolio.
Where do you look for information, how do you learn?

When looking at the news, to prepare this content, I feel I am more confused now than I was yesterday. Contradictions, misunderstandings, mis-interpretations, short-comings. Yet, you need to keep going.

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OUR PICK OF THIS WEEK'S NEWS

Refillable beauty the way forward?

Why it’s interesting
If you’d asked me 18months ago, when I launched the first workshop to decipher sustainable beauty, I would have told you that “refill is the way to go”. Now, more and more brands offer refill solutions, and it’s only when it becomes mainstream that it will become a truly sustainable model.

Key Takeaways
- refill examples in jars for skincare and also airless packaging
- the makeup segment also offers more solutions
- we’ll cover more brand innovations in the report inside our course.

Laura Kennedy: The beauty industry is not sustainable. What now?

Jennifer Rock’s overhaul of her skincare brand is a rare example of principle over profit

The Irish TimesLaura Kennedy

The less independent, the less sustainable?

Why it’s interesting
The American brand AllBirds is going public soon and intends to keep investors at bay, to remain sustainable and make tougher business choices. A shift is happening and “companies’ health” will be measured in more parameters than just financial results. The back-log of requests to B-Corp certifications seems to confirm this evolution.

Key Takeaways
- AllBirds is making environmental benefits a guaranteed obligation
- on the same level as bringing in profits to shareholders, with the latter not coming at the expense of the former

How Allbirds plans to balance sustainability and investor pressure after it goes public

Allbirds is intending to file as a Public Benefit Corporation, or PBC, which it announced in regulatory filings on Monday.

GlossyDanny Parisi

Moving towards carbon neutrality

Why it’s interesting
Steklarna Hrastnik is using new "green energy" to produce glass bottles with no carbon dioxide emissions, to reduce their carbon footprint and increases their energy efficiency. This aligns with EU regulations of achieving carbon neutrality by 2050. Expensive investment yet beneficial for the planet and you brand claims.

Key Takeaways

- Glass bottles produced from green hydrogen from electrolysis process
- process generates water vapour instead of carbon dioxide
- Reduce carbon footprint to becoming carbon neutral

Steklarna Hrastnik takes a first step towards carbon neutral glass

The Slovenian glassmaker has taken an important step towards carbon neutral glass by using so-called “green” hydrogen gas to produce what it describes as the “world’s most sustainable glass bottle”. The main source of carbon dioxide emissions in the production of glass is related to the energy…

Premium Beauty NewsBaptiste Le Guay, Vincent Gallon