LEADING IN RECYCLED PLASTIC
100% RECYCLABLE PROFESSIONAL PRODUCT
We are striving towards all Medik8 professional products used in our pro treatments being 100% recyclable; caps, pumps, bottles, everything. As you can imagine, this is a big undertaking but something we are working towards every single day. This is not greenwashing. This is an honest commitment that we are striving to achieve over the coming months and we invite you to stay part of the journey by tracking our progress on our sustainability dashboards (see above). We have already made enormous strides towards our goal, with a few more products to find solutions for (currently deemed 'unrecyclable': but watch this space.)
Pumps have been our biggest challenge to date. Regular skincare pumps are just not recyclable. Until now. The issue with recycling them lays with the mix of plastics used to make them and the spring in the pump that makes the mechanism work. Only certain plastics can work together in the recycling process. So we have worked tirelessly to find a solution and glad to say we have finally cracked it. These pumps have been in clinics around the world since September 2019 onwards. You may notice them because they are white instead of the usual black. But there's more...