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RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT
Green Salon Collective is the authority figure on sustainability in the hair and beauty industry
and we are incredibly proud of the core services we provide that enable us to maintain that position:
RECYCLING
ACCREDITATION
EDUCATION
But we want to provide even better solutions for salon waste and to help create new knowledge
for our industry to be the best, the absolute greenest it can be!
Let's make hair and beauty a LEADING industry in sustainability!
our objectives
ADVANCE knowledge
- - - - - of the impacts of our industry's waste on people and planet
DEVELOP products
- - - - - made from waste materials or else help combat waste
ENHANCE services
- - - - - for our industry which bring waste materials back into the loop
(some of) our R&D PROJECTS
Mirror Talkers
We are exploring the effectiveness of mirror talkers at sparking conversations between hairdressers and their clients around sustainable haircare.
Potting Felt
We are exploring the effectiveness of hair felt for water retention when placed at the bottom of potted plants.
Details coming soon...
Disposable Towels
We are carrying out an objective study comparing the environmental (and financial) costs of disposable and reusable salon towels.
CE 4 Plastics
We are developing a campaign to create a circular economy for plastic packaging waste in the hair and beauty industry.
We cannot solve the many sustainability challenges of our industry alone.
We work with:
- researchers
- academic institutions
- designers
- product companies
- product developers
- charity organisations
Our research partners work with us on target-focused, longer term tasks that result in the creation of new knowledge, products or services which measurably improve our industry.
See our R&D Partners
We also work with YOU, our members!!!
For those of you who want to do yet more for the environment and be more directly involved in improving our industry, we have created a list of opportunities so GSC members can choose to be a part of our research projects.
There are many ways to get involved and we regularly update our R&D Opportunities on the website and on all of social media channels.
GO TO R&D OPPORTUNITIES
(latest from) our BLOG
You can learn more about some of our research projects in the Green Salon Collective Blog. Read how we are blending salon hair waste with British wool then spinning it into yarns and twines. Read how we are collaborating with a regenerative biomanufacturer to develop hair-based wood-alternative sheets. Read about all of our hair related projects as well as those focusing on plastics, behavioural psychology and more!
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