Green Salon Collective
Hair & Metal Returns Box
Hair & Metal Returns Box
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Do Memberships Cost?
Do Memberships Cost?
No, access to memberships is free for everyone, with free shipping and free collections included. You only pay for your recycling returns box.
What is the difference between quantity and frequency?
What is the difference between quantity and frequency?
Quantity = The number of Returns Boxes sent per shipment.
Frequency = Number of shipments sent per year.
For example, you're a salon that needs 24 boxes per year, 2 boxes every month. You would select:
Quantity = 2
Frequency = 12 boxes a year
What do I select if I need more than 12 boxes a year?
What do I select if I need more than 12 boxes a year?
You have two options:
- Increase the quantity to get multiple boxes per shipment.
- Select more than 12 boxes a year and we'll be in touch to customise your subscription.
Do I have to fund a whole years worth of boxes upfront?
Do I have to fund a whole years worth of boxes upfront?
NO.
You only pay for items as they are shipped, not upfront for the year.
For example, if you choose 6 shipments per year (1 box each), you’ll make 6 separate payments - one each time an order is shipped.
Want to include Towels Composting Boxes or Bags? Select a bundle!
By filling and recycling this box, you've helped save over 18kg of waste from landfill, and 6kg of CO2e emissions from the atmosphere!
Our top tips for packing your returns box:
Do
- Tape the box up around all edges with thick, good-quality tape
- Squash bags of foil before they go in the box
- Only put bags of hair and metals in the box
- Use compostable bags for hair so the hair dries out
Don't
- For any waste items like paper, plastic, cardboard (that don't require a specialist Green Salon Collective recycling box service for them to be recycled), see here
- Overfill the box so it's bulging, or damage the box by jumping inside to squash foils
Keep your salon waste recycling simple with the Green Salon Collective Returns Box. Designed for busy hair salons and barbers, each Returns Box holds, on average, 550 clients' worth of hair and metal recycling, making it an easy and efficient way to divert salon waste from landfill.
Simply fill your Returns Box with bags of separated hair and metals like aluminium foils and colour tubes, then arrange collection when it's full. We'll take care of the recycling! By transforming hair into more than 10 innovative products and environmental solutions, and ensuring valuable metals are recovered and recycled wherever possible.
By choosing Green Salon Collective, you're helping create a more sustainable hair industry, turning salon waste into valuable resources instead of sending it to landfill.
Why Choose the Green Salon Collective Returns Box?
- Holds approximately 550 clients' worth of salon hair and metal waste
- Easy pay-as-you-go salon recycling with no contracts
- No monthly subscriptions or hidden fees
- Memberships give free shipping, exclusive rates and lots of other benefits
- Helps divert salon waste from landfill
- Supports the responsible recycling of hair and metals
- Works alongside the Green Salon Collective £1 Green Fee system, making recycling profitable for salons
Keep recycling. Keep reducing waste. Keep making a positive impact with every client.
Salon Recycling Returns Box Size
85cm x 43cm x 43cm - Membership
80cm x 42cm x 42cm - PAYG
Comes flat-packed.
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!
MEMBERSHIP BUNDLES
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Hair & Metals Returns Box + Towels Returns Box (Membership Bundle)
Regular price £298.00 GBPRegular price -
Hair & Metals Returns Box + Bin Bags for Hair & Metals (Membership Bundle)
Regular price £204.50 GBPRegular price -
Hair & Metals Returns Box + Towels Returns Box + Bin Bags for Hair & Metals (Membership Bundle)
Regular price £303.50 GBPRegular price
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.
