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Cosmetics industry usually are luxury goods for sale, or at least give a person brings a sense of luxury, so for the packing as well as the environmental impact of the problem is often not brought to the attention of the cosmetics manufacturers. But by Asia's largest cosmetics exhibition held in the near future - Asia Pacific beauty show in plastic packaging enterprise's feedback, the sustainable development of cosmetics packaging seems to be slowly cause for concern. Cosmetics packaging manufacturers FSKorea company, for example, think that people's attitudes change, so in this exhibition as an opportunity to aggressively introduced to wood plastic composite material made of a new series of cosmetic and compact, the company said it could be a wood plastic materials of global the first of its kind in cosmetics packaging application. Based in Seoul, South Korea FSKorea company in both China and South Korea factory has more than 1200 employees, the President of J. K。 Hwang said, by the company in the production of wood plastic brushes have a large department store chain stores in the United States, and there have been other brands to show interest in this material, it embodies the cosmetics industry for 'green' packaging materials is becoming more and more attention, although still smaller amplitude. Hwang said: 'for this kind of material is very limited in the past, but now has changed. 'his company every year to produce 100 million wood plastic brushes, most of which are supplied to The United States cosmetics retailer The Body Shop, The body shop) 。 'now more environmentally friendly products favored by consumers. 'he said, the company used in the wood-plastics material as much as 75% of the wood, and 25% of the plastic, sawdust is by using the forest stewardship council certification wood furniture factory to offer. Hwang believes, as rising oil prices, increasingly strict emissions requirements, combined with customer for the favour of a more natural material, forecast the demand for this kind of 'ecological packaging will be growing. On November 10-12 Asia Pacific beauty exhibition held in Hong Kong on packaging enterprise were interviewed, said cosmetics manufacturers related topic is more and more attention to the environment, such as plant-based plastics, recycled content or use of this kind of pure natural bamboo material, etc. For example, production of consumer goods giant unilever announced on November 15 half strive to reduce the environmental footprint of all its products. American cosmetics producers aveda company also said that most of the material for the plastic bottles containing at least 80% recycled resin after consumption. But industry executives, points out that to depend entirely on the appearance and image to attract people of cosmetics packaging industry, the attention to environmental protection material is usually limited, manufacturers have to work hard as much as possible by visual effect to attract the attention of consumers. Headquartered in Rhode Island, David kotok cosmetic packaging manufacturer Portola TechInternational company President RickSchofield said: 'I believe that all of the cosmetics company intends to raise environmental awareness, but from another perspective, cosmetics packaging sheer beauty to attract consumers, so there is quite a difficult to strike a balance between the two. 'packaging manufacturers, he said, one of the main focus areas is the recycled content of plastic, but due to the resin regeneration appearance beautiful enough, sometimes very limited its application, such as Portola company production of ethylene glycol tank is regenerated resin modified PET cosmetics. For such products, he said: 'it is very important to build clear transparent effect, and the resin regeneration shortcomings in this respect. 'but he also said that some cosmetics manufacturer devoted to tracking the environmental impact of product, the company on the exhibition to the question raised by Portola.