Green Salon Collective
Salon Recycling Starter Kit
Salon Recycling Starter Kit
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Everything You Need to Start Recycling Your Salon Waste
Ready to make your salon more sustainable? The Green Salon Collective Salon Recycling Starter Kit is the easiest way to start recycling your salon's hair and metal waste while engaging clients in your sustainability journey.
This all-in-one kit gives you everything you need to start cutting out landfill, from collection bins and marketing materials to your first prepaid Returns Box (optional).
Best of all, by adding a simple, optional £1 Green Fee to your services, you can cover the cost of recycling, with the majority of salons generating green profits by recycling.
Why Choose the Salon Recycling Starter Kit?
- Recycle salon hair, used foils and aluminium colour tubes
- Divert waste from landfill through specialist recycling
- Everything you need to get started in one kit
- Includes client-facing marketing materials to promote your sustainability efforts
- Supports the optional Green Fee system to help fund recycling
- No contracts or hidden fees
- Suitable for salons of all sizes
- Free Shipping on all starter kits and memberships!
What's Included?
Depending on the options you choose, your Starter Kit can include:
- Window sticker
- Four in-salon mirror stickers
- Hair and metal recycling bin stickers
- Green Fee reception display strut
- Salon Recycling Totals display strut
- Hairy Houseplants display strut
- 100% recycled bin bags (x5)
- Compostable hair collection bags (x3)
- Listing in the Green Salon Collective Salon Directory
- Optional recycled-plastic hair and metal recycling bins (29cm width, 28th depth, 55cm height)
- Optional prepaid Hair & Metal Returns Box (85cm x 43cm x 43cm, comes flat-packed)
Your prepaid Returns Box holds approximately 550 clients' worth of hair and metal waste, making it ideal for busy salons. You don't have to buy a Returns Box upfront. Instead, you can buy a Starter Kit without a Returns box and just start saving your "green fees" right away. Then you can come back for a returns box when you're ready.
How It Works
1. Set Up Your Recycling Starter Kit
Place your recycling bins in the salon and begin separating hair and metal waste as you work.
2. Introduce the Green Fee
Many salons choose to charge an optional £1 Green Fee per appointment to help fund their recycling while demonstrating their commitment to sustainability.
3. Fill Your Returns Box
Collect your salon hair and metal waste until your Returns Box is full. Once it's full, you can request a collection here.
4. Book Your Collection
When your box is ready, simply arrange collection and continue your recycling journey with a replacement Returns Box or choose a membership to unlock additional member benefits: Memberships.
Why Recycle Your Salon Waste?
Every day, salons generate valuable materials that often end up in landfill, including hair, aluminium foils and colour tubes.
Through Green Salon Collective, hair is recycled and repurposed in more than 10 different ways, while profits from recycled aluminium help support charitable initiatives. Every Returns Box also contributes towards environmental projects and organisations such as Haircuts4Homeless and The Water Fund, meaning your recycling creates a positive impact beyond your salon.
Frequently Asked Questions
What can I recycle?
Hair, aluminium foils and empty colour tubes can all be collected through the Green Salon Collective recycling system.
Do I need a membership?
No. There are no mandatory contracts, and you can choose the option that best suits your salon. However, our memberships offer free shipping, exclusive rates and many other benefits, you can learn more about salon recycling memberships here.
How many clients does a Returns Box hold?
A standard Returns Box holds approximately 550 clients' worth of salon hair and metal waste.
Can the Green Fee cover my recycling costs?
Many salons find that an optional £1 Green Fee generates profits, beyond covering the cost, and many salons chose to put the additional income towards further sustainability initiatives. Calculate your salon recycling potential profits here.
Start Recycling with Confidence
Joining Green Salon Collective means more than recycling your salon waste, it's about becoming part of a movement that's helping transform the hair and beauty industry.
With the Salon Recycling Starter Kit, you'll have everything you need to reduce waste, engage your clients, support environmental projects and build a more sustainable salon from day one.
Order your Salon Recycling Starter Kit today and take the first step towards a cleaner, greener future for your salon.
Impact
Impact
Every Green Salon Collective Returns Box:
- Is carbon offset via rewilding projects.
- Funds Haircuts 4 Homeless.
- Provides much-needed money to feed those in need.
So far, Green Salon Collective has diverted over 200+ tonnes of hairdressing salon waste from landfill. Join us for the next 100!
All profits from recycling metals are donated to Haircuts 4 Homeless // The Water Fund
Shipping
Shipping
Shipping costs £9.95 across the UK & Ireland. You will receive an email once your order has been sent out with tracking information. It takes 5-7 working days for delivery.
Got a Question?
Got a Question?
You can contact us on:
0333 577 6769
hello@greensaloncollective.com
10+ Ways We Recycle Hair
We reuse and recycle hair in over 10 ways, to ensure that none of your lovely locks go to landfill!
Recycling services: HAIR
We all know that if hair is long enough we can donate it to make wigs. But what about the 99.9% of hair that isn't long enough?
There are many ways to recycle hair including making hair booms and hair mats as well as using it for gardening and composting.
Here are the 10 ways we currently recycle your hair:
1. Composting and Gardening
Hair is rich in Nitrogen, making it an ideal fertiliser for local and industrial composting.
2. Waterway Cleanups
Hair adsorbs oil and pollutants, even in water. We've used hair in this way to clean up oil spills and polluted rivers across the UK and Ireland.
A RECENT OIL SPILL
This spill in 2021 came from farmland in Northern Ireland, red diesel oil was leaking into the sea.
At the time of this picture GSC had collected about 400kgs of hair and we used about 30-45kgs of hair over this weekend in the clean up.
We are the first manufacturer of hair booms and mats in the UK and Ireland!
100% OF ANY MONEY MADE SELLING HAIR BOOMS AND MATS GOES TO CHARITY
3. Hair Mats
By felting hair with our unique machinery, we can create a hair mat that can be used to cover storm drains or clean up waterways
4. Regenerative Biomanufacturing
Working with Biohm, a London based regenerative biomanufacturer, your hair is being combines with their unique binding material 'orb', to create particleboard-like sheets as well as moulded 3D objects. They are also working with mycelium, the root structure of fungi, to grow around hair to create insulation panels.
5. Wool Alternatives
We are collaborating with Natural Fibre Co., a British woollen mill in Cornwall, to develop a hair-wool fibre alternative to petroleum or cotton based yarns, ropes and twines. Our current blend is 40:60 hair and wool blend using salon's waste hair and undervalued, destined-for-compost wool.
6. Hair Rope Making
We have created a truly unique workshop with our research partner, Sanne Visser, Design Researcher in Residence at The Design Museum. Our workshops invite people to explore hair rope making while inspiring them to rethink the concept of waste.
7. Hair Felt
Our Head of R&D, Stephanie Hodgson, is conducting an experiment to test the ability of 'potting felt' a product for houseplants made from salon hair waste, to save water, deter pests, and release nitrogen into the soil.
8. Architecture
Collaborating with architecture and research firm, Pareid, we explore the application of salon hair waste in architecture and building materials. Pareid are interested in visibly showcasing the presence of hair in final products and instalments as a way to compel people to consider the material not as waste but as a resource.
9. Wigs
We can use even the shortest of hair in the Green Salon Collective hair recycling projects, however, when the hair is long enough to create a wig, that is what we will do.
10. Art
Working with dressmakers and designers, we can turn hair into dresses and clothes. In 2022, Green Salon Collective was featured in museums across the UK and Europe showcasing what can be done with hair.
Curious about our Research and Development projects?
Learn more and get involved here.
Ready to Get Started?
If you'd like to turn your client's hair into one of the amazing things above, head to our shop to buy your starter kit and begin your recycling journey!
Green Salon Collective is an industry leader in the UK for hair salon recycling, salon waste management, and salon foil recycling. Our salon waste disposal system allows you to become a more sustainable salon and stand out from the crowd. We believe that no salon waste should be going to landfill, which is why we have options for every single salon waste stream to be disposed of responsibly, from the 10 different ways that we offer for hair recycling, to our general waste to energy solution for hair salon chemical waste. Through Green Salon Collective, you can get your hairdressing salon waste bins, marketing materials and the peace of mind that you're recycling your salon waste with a trusted, B-Corp certified hairdressing waste recycling company. If you'd like to become a sustainable salon and move towards a more eco-friendly future within the hair and beauty industry, get in touch today.
