BACK-TO-M·A·C
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!
HELP GIVE YOUR
OLD MAC
PRODUCT

For over 30 years, Back-To-MAC has recycled 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

01
Return your clean, empty products to a participating M·A·C counter in-store.
02
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 M·A·C product!
03
The packaging that cannot be recycled will be converted into energy.


GOING BEYOND
OUR PRODUCTS

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
M·A·C IS TAKING STEPS TO ADVANCE
SUSTAINABLE PACKAGING. TODAY,
MORE THAN 50% OF OUR PACKAGING*
IS RECYCLABLE, REFILLABLE, REUSABLE,
RECYCLED OR RECOVERABLE.
*BY WEIGHT
50%+
OUR
TO USE RESPONSIBLY SOURCED PAPER PRODUCTS WHENEVER POSSIBLE.
AMBITION
CURRENTLY, 100% OF OUR FOREST-BASED FIBRE CARTONS ARE FSC CERTIFIED.
100%
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).
WE OFFER AN ARRAY OF CUSTOMIZABLE PALETTES THAT YOU CAN REFILL AT YOUR LEISURE – BASED ON YOUR LOOK OF THE MOMENT – WHILE HELPING TO MINIMIZE WASTE.
WIN-
WIN!
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M·A·C CARES

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START SENDING YOUR
EMPTIES BACK-TO-M·A·C
 

We encourage you to continue to bring back your empties in-store to be processed through the program and hope you'll follow us for updates as we further evolve the program for greater action and impact.

THANK
YOU!
FOR JOINING US IN CREATING A MORE SUSTAINABLE
AND SENSATIONAL WORLD FOR ALL!