There are 250,000 salons in the United States, they create 421,000 pounds of waste per day. Excess color going down the drains, foils, cotton, saran wrap, hair, and color- -tubes are only a few examples of how this industry compromises our planet.

55 percent gets buried in landfills, 12.5 percent goes to incinerators and roughly 33 percent gets recycled.
Choose Hair Salons that partnered up with Green Circle Salons, a recycling program exclusively for salons.

Able to recycle over 80% of their waste. If every salon in the United States would get behind it, together they would be able to recycle 336,800 pounds per day.

Green Circle has partnered with an inmate reintegration program, paying the maximum wage available to them. All hair clippings are used to create hair booms. These booms are used in oil spills in the ocean and can soak up 5 times more oil than synthetic booms. Hair is also used to make temporary pillows in efforts to help with the refugee crisis and people in need.

Excess chemicals from color tubes and aluminum foils are being divided and recycled. The chemicals are then put into a centrifuge system that can separate the color and other chemicals from the water present. Up to 96% of water can be removed from this process and is cleaned and reintroduced back into the environment. The other 4% is used in clean energy and anything left over is added to asphalt.

With so much at stake, we want to inspire others to get enrolled as well.