BACK-TO-M·A·C

MAC SHARES
YOUR
COMMITMENT
TO THE PLANET

We’re continuing to evolve our efforts toward helping reduce our environmental impact and remain dedicated to improving our longstanding pioneer take-back
program, Back-To-MAC.

30 YEARS OF

SUSTAINABLE

RECYCLING

DID YOU
KNOW...

Most makeup packaging isn’t accepted by your local recycling service, so we created the Back-To-MAC program over 30 years ago to help create a place for makeup packaging in the circular economy.

30 YEARS OF

SUSTAINABLE

RECYCLING

95%

of our forest-based fibre cartons are FSC certified.

30 YEARS OF

SUSTAINABLE

RECYCLING

IMPROVING OUR SUSTAINABILITY FOR OVER 30 YEARS

Done with your MAC products? Return your clean, empty products in-store to recycle. What is not recycled is converted to energy. Be part of the solution for a more beautiful tomorrow – today!

RECYCLE MAKEUP &
HELP GIVE YOUR

OLD MAC

PRODUCT

For over 30 years, Back-To-MAC has recycled makeup or recovered your used product packaging and, where possible, given the old plastic a second life. What cannot be recycled is converted to energy.

A SECOND LIFE

Return your clean, empty products to a participating MAC counter in-store.

If they can be recycled, they’ll be shredded, washed, re-pelletized and recycled into the production of new materials – or, in some places, they’ll become a new MAC product!

The packaging that cannot be recycled will be converted into energy.

BACK-TO-M·A·C

SUSTAINABLE

RECYCLING

BACK-TO-M·A·C

SUSTAINABLE

RECYCLING

BACK-TO-M·A·C

SUSTAINABLE

RECYCLING

GOING BEYOND OUR
PRODUCTS FOR
SUSTAINABLE BEAUTY

Our plastic efforts go beyond our products.
We are proud to donate $100,000 to Plastics for Change
to enable the collection of over 550,000 pounds of plastic
(equivalent to 12,500,000 plastic bottles!) from our planet while
supporting approximately 200 plastic collectors and their
communities for one year with a host of social services.

OUR

WE ARE CONTINUING TO DESIGN OUR PRODUCTS WITH THE ENVIRONMENT IN MIND – MAKING SMARTER, MORE RESPONSIBLE PACKAGING CHOICES WITHOUT COMPROMISING OUR ICONIC PACKAGING AESTHETICS AND PERFORMANCE.

ENVIRONMENTAL

COMMITMENTS

MAC IS TAKING STEPS TO ADVANCE PACKAGING SUSTAINABILITY. TODAY 50% OF OUR PACKAGING* IS RECYCLABLE, REFILLABLE, RESUABLE, RECYCLED OR RECOVERABLE.

*by weight

OUR

TO USE RESPONSIBLY SOURCED PAPER PRODUCTS WHENEVER POSSIBLE.

AMBITION

CURRENTLY, MORE THAN 95% OF OUR FOREST-BASED FIBRE CARTONS ARE FSC CERTIFIED.

95%

50%

2025

WE ARE WORKING TO INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF POST-CONSUMER RECYCLED (PCR) MATERIAL IN OUR PACKAGING BY UP TO 50%, BY 2025, THANKS IN PART TO OUR PIONEER TAKEBACK PROGRAM BACK-TO-MAC.

OFFSETS
CARBON

MAC COSMETICS OFFSETS THE CARBON EMISSIONS FOR EVERY UK & IRELAND ORDER PLACED ON MACCOSMETICS.CO.UK*

*THE ESTEE LAUDER COMPANIES INC. IS FUNDING EMISSION REDUCTION PROJECTS TO OFFSET CO2E EMISSIONS AS A RESULT OF DELIVERIES MADE FROM OUR UK & IRELAND FULFILLMENT CENTER TO OUR CONSUMERS' DELIVERY ADDRESSES (EXCLUDES BUY ONLINE AND PICKUP IN STORE, AND SAME-DAY DELIVERY).