Packaging collected for recycling

Beauty brand Garnier kicked off its summer Garnier Greener Tour in partnership with green company TerraCycle on Wednesday at the Walmart parking lot on Boca Chica. A stated goal of the tour is to gather packaging from cosmetics and from hair- and skin-care products — packaging that would otherwise end up occupying space in a landfill. The TerraCycle website says that beauty and personal-care products account for about one-third of landfill waste because they are usually not accepted as recyclable material because of their composition.