Charmaine is proud to represent The Green Salon Collective as an ambassador, helping to educate & inspire salons to adopt more sustainable practices & reduce their environmental impact '
We all love the hairdressing industry but we also know it has an ugly side too. We freely pour toxic hair colour down the sink, throw out used foils and colour tubes in the regular bin given they mostly can't be recycled, we use more plastic and paper than the other shops on the high street and we even throw valuable hair cuttings into the bin.
THE GREEN SALON COLLECTIVE are here to change this.
Founded by environmental experts, hairdressers & eco campaigners, GREEN SALON COLLECTIVE is the original authority on salon sustainability throughout the UK and Ireland wide.
With their recycling system, they will recycle almost every single piece of "rubbish" and turn it into something new. They recycle and recover hair, used foils, empty colour tubes, chemicals, PPE, plastic & Paper. They also sell 100% plastic-free plant-based gloves and the worlds only recyclable face masks.
They provide each salon with the separation kits, in-salon marketing, daily collections, ongoing support and ideas and education on all matters regarding sustainability.
Another thing they are proud to recycle is their profits.
100% of any money raised from recycling your raw materials or new products made from your waste goes to charity. By recycling their profits, every month they can support charities and organisations that are close to their hearts. These currently include the following:
Foodcycle - Haircuts 4 The Homeless - Tree Planting.
The biggest winner here is that they reward the planet. They are diverting easily recyclable materials that are currently being sent to landfill. These are materials such as aluminium foil which is a commodity that can be recycled an infinite amount of times. They'll also recycle your hair to ensure that it will be used to either help adsorb oil from our waterways, be added into gardeners composting mixes, or if it's long enough, be donated to wig making charities. There is absolutely no reason why either of these materials should be thrown away as general waste just to end up in the ground.
Visit their website www.greensaloncollective.com
