Space NK has partnered with Handle Recycling to introduce a new beauty packaging recycling scheme. Handle Recycling is a circular economy company aiming to make beauty sustainable by keeping post-consumer plastics circulating through recycling and in doing so, reducing the amount of waste entering the natural environment as harmful toxins and pollution.

The partnership will see Space NK join the mission to intercept used and empty beauty packaging from going to landfills by providing collection points in all 74 stores across the UK. Once collected, the packaging is sorted by Handle into the correct waste stream, where the material is repurposed for the manufacturing of more beauty packaging or turned into HANDLE’s collection of sustainable beauty accessories, handmade from 100% recycled plastic. Space NK will accept all recyclable beauty packaging, including items from brands that are not sold by the retailer.