GREEN GIANTS

Hand in your empties and clear your conscience with these beauty-product recycling programs.

L’ORÉAL

Drop-offs are available at Walmart, London Drugs and Shoppers Drug Mart. Though the program is funded by L’Oréal, all brands are accepted.

SEPHORA

Visit any Sephora store and drop your empties in the dedicated collections bin. Products may be repurposed into carpets, pallets, asphalt or new packaging.

HUDSON’S BAY

Get $5 in Hudson’s Bay Rewards points for every five containers you bring back.

HOLT RENFREW

You’ll find recycling boxes where you can deposit finished products in the store’s Beauty Hall. Empties get sorted and separated into various materials and then used to create new products.

WINNERS

You can bring in everything from plastic bottles and jars (which must be smaller than 60 millilitres) to squeezable tubes, mascaras and lipsticks.

M·A·C COSMETICS

Your clean compact or lipstick bullet will be shredded, washed, re-pelletized and recycled into new materials, or it’ll become a new M·A·C product. And packaging that can’t be recycled will be turned into energy.

L’OCCITANE EN PROVENCE

Save 10 percent when you recycle in-store. You can also refill any liquid product in a L’Occitane Forever Bottle at the brand’s refill fountains located in the Pacific Centre, Richmond Centre and Toronto Eaton Centre stores.

THE DETOX MARKET

Get 10 Detox Points for every fullsized product you recycle. (There’s a limit of 10 products per customer, per visit.)

TERRACYCLE

Participating brands include Burt’s Bees, Eos, Göt2b, Living Proof, Paula’s Choice, Schwarzkopf and Weleda. Just print off a prepaid label and pop your empties in the mail. Bonus: You don’t have to worry about cleaning out containers (because we all know how impossible it is to get that mascara tube squeaky clean).