BACK-TO-M·A·C
IMPROVING OUR SUSTAINABILITY FOR OVER 30 YEARS
Done with your M·A·C products? Return your clean, empty products in-store or online 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 M·A·C
PRODUCT

For over 30 years, Back-To-M·A·C 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 or ONLINE.

 

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.

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.
OFFSETS
CARBON
M·A·C COSMETICS OFFSETS CARBON EMISSIONS FROM U.S SHIPPING*
​*THE ESTEE LAUDER COMPANIES INC. IS FUNDING EMISSION REDUCTION PROJECTS TO OFFSET CO2E EMISSIONS AS A RESULT OF DELIVERIES MADE FROM OUR M·A·C US 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!