Selfridges cleans up beauty aisle with ban on single-use wipes

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Customer research found significant concern for the impact of plastic pollution, but low awareness that wipes contain plastic

Single-use beauty wipes have become a thing of the past in department store Selfridges, which announced yesterday it has replaced the plastic-based cloths with recyclable or re-usable alternatives...

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