Schwarzkopf Cares Hair Care & Colour Free Recycling Program
Recycle any brand of used hair care & colour packaging
Hair care bottles and caps
Hair care bottles and pumps
Hair care tubes and caps
Hair colour bottles, tubes and caps
Hair colour soft plastic pouches
Latex, HDPE, Nitrile and PE Gloves
Hair care jars, lids and stirrers
All brands accepted
Drop off your recycling at a location near you
Bring your recycling to a participating public drop-off point near you. It's free, and you won't need a TerraCycle account or shipping label.
This map is constantly being updated
How to become a public drop-off point
Simply request to join this program, and once you are confirmed, your location will show up on the public drop-off point map. Set up boxes that community members can fill with their rubbish to be recycled, and send full boxes to TerraCycle at no cost to you.
Collect with Your Community
Once your location is approved as a public drop-off point, community members will be able to find it on the map and drop-off their rubbish to be recycled.
Print Free Shipping Labels
When a box is full, sign in to your TerraCycle account to download and print a prepaid shipping label.
Ship
Seal the box, affix the prepaid shipping label, and send it to us to be recycled.
Get Started
Starting and managing a TerraCycle public drop-off point is easy and free! See answers to frequently-asked questions here. Can’t find the answer to your question on this page? Learn more about becoming a public drop-off point.
It’s quite simple to set up and manage a public drop-off point, and you can recruit a group of friends to help!
Set Up:
- Choose a location and receive permission if needed.
- Update a new or existing TerraCycle account profile with details about your public drop-off point.
- Request to join the programs you would like to participate in.
- Once you’ve been approved for the programs you requested, set up your public drop-off point location.
Manage:
- Oversee the location (check it is being used properly, that rubbish is being shipped when collection boxes are filled).
- When boxes are filled, seal them, download and affix the prepaid labels, and drop off the boxes at an Australia Post.
- Continue to join programs of your choosing.
Promote: Spread awareness about your drop-off point (as you see fit) to encourage participation.
Allocate: As you accumulate TerraCycle recycling rewards, choose which charities will receive donations from your points.
Schwarzkopf sponsors this national recycling program making it free for you to participate.
Public spaces that have good traffic flow and are easily accessible are excellent public drop-off points. Stores, community centers, places of worship, and libraries are great options.
You choose which TerraCycle free recycling programs your public drop-off point will participate in. Collectors can drop off only the rubbish accepted in those TerraCycle programs.
Earn Recycling Rewards
Earn TerraCycle points by recycling with us! You can redeem your points in the form of a donation to a school or charity of your choice. Thanks to the recycling efforts of our collectors, we've raised over $45 million dollars globally for schools and charities through our recycling programs.
Click here to learn more about our Recycling Rewards Program.
1. Recycle
Request for your public drop-off point to join the Schwarzkopf Cares Hair Care & Colour Free Recycling Program. Once approved, begin collecting recycling with your community.
2. Earn Rewards
Send in the recycling you’ve collected at your public drop-off point. As the drop-off point administrator, you’ll earn all of the points for your shipments! Shipments earn 100 points ($1) per piece of rubbish.
3. Redeem Rewards
TerraCycle points can be redeemed for a donation of $0.01 per point. You’ll get to choose which charities or schools to support with the points you earn from your public drop-off point.
How it works
We’ve made getting started with the Schwarzkopf Cares Hair Care & Colour Free Recycling Program easy! Simply download a free shipping label to ship your used hair care & colour packaging to TerraCycle, and we’ll recycle it.
Collect
Create a TerraCycle account and join this program. Then reuse any box you have to start collecting your used hair care & colour packaging.
Print Free Label
When your box is full, sign-in to your TerraCycle account to download and print a prepaid shipping label.
Ship
Seal your box, affix the prepaid shipping label, and send it to us to be recycled.
Get Started
Participating in this program is easy and FREE! See answers to frequently-asked questions here.
This program has strict shipping guidelines due to the transportation of hair dye. Please read through this check list before shipping your waste.
- Remove excess hair dye - Excess hair dye must be emptied and disposed of in your general waste bin.
- Triple rinse containers - All hair dye bottles and tubs (both liquid and powder) must be triple rinsed.
- Empty tubes - All hair dye tubes must have residual dye squeezed out.
Any brand of used hair care & colour packaging.
NOTE: Hair aerosols can be reyccled through the Schwarzkopf Cares Hair Aerosol Recycling Program.
The program does not accept:
- Packaging still containing product
- Hair styling tools like brushes and combs
- Hair Aerosols
Outer cardboard packaging can be recycled with your local council, so please don’t include this in your shipment to TerraCycle.
For hair care waste you do not need to wash your products or packaging, however we do ask that they are completely dry before sending to TerraCycle.
For hair colour please read through this check list before shipping your waste.
- Remove excess hair dye - Excess hair dye must be emptied and disposed of in your general waste bin.
- Triple rinse containers - All hair dye bottles and tubs (both liquid and powder) must be triple rinsed.
- Empty tubes - All hair dye tubes must have residual dye squeezed out
Schwarzkopf sponsors this national recycling program making it free for you to participate.
We encourage you to ship when your box is full of rubbish to minimise the footprint of this program. Australia Post will not accept dripping packages, so please make sure your items are dry.
Earn Recycling Rewards
Earn TerraCycle points by recycling with us! You can redeem your points in the form of a donation to a school or charity of your choice. Thanks to the recycling efforts of our collectors, we've raised over $45 million dollars globally for schools and charities through our recycling programs.
Click here to learn more about our Recycling Rewards Program.
1. Recycle
Sign up for the Schwarzkopf Cares Hair Care & Colour Free Recycling Program and begin recycling.
2. Earn Rewards
Send in your recycling to earn reward points. Shipments earn 100 points ($1) per kilogram.
3. Redeem Rewards
TerraCycle points can be redeemed for a donation of $0.01 per point to the charitable organisation or school of your choice.
Discover Our Recycling Process
Once collected, the hair care & colour packaging is broken down and separated by material. Plastics are cleaned and pelletised to be recycled into new products, and metal materials are sent for smelting and conversion to new alloys.
Click here to take a virtual tour of our processing facilities.