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Going to the hair salon or barber shop is a ritual as old as time itself.
But what happens to all that hair after it’s been swept off the floor? Or the metal foil hairstylists use to give you that ombré hair or balayage? And what about all that extra hair product that’s left sitting in the mixing bowl?
For the most part, it goes down the drain and into the water system, or in the trash and then in a landfill.
However, if your hairdresser is a certified member of Green Circle Salons, 95 per cent of the waste is now being recycled and repurposed.
Bruno Racine, who owns The Loft Urban Salon in Ottawa with his partner Paul Valletta, said the feedback has been very positive since they joined the program.
“Today’s clients are more socially conscious. They take notice, they ask a lot of questions.”
Racine’s hairstylists throw all of their waste into one of five different recycling bins: hair, metal, chemicals, paper and plastics.
Bruno Racine of The Loft Urban Salon disposes of excess hair product in a container for chemical waste instead of pouring it down the drain.
Green Circle Salons then picks up the waste and ships it to a warehouse in Toronto. The company also has warehouses in Vancouver, Calgary and Montreal.
Once there, the waste is sorted and sent to waste management facilities for recycling and repurposing.
Hair salons in North America accumulate some 400 lbs. of waste daily. That’s a lot of hair clippings, metal foils, excess hair chemicals, paper packaging and plastic tubes.
“Our clients are 100 per cent for it,” said Racine who will be opening a new hair salon in Westboro in March and another in Toronto in April. Both will be certified with Green Circle Salons.
“It’s a win-win situation for everyone.”
Jennifer Henry, a spokeswoman for Green Circle Salons, said the program is a “custom solution that salon owners can implement in just an hour. We take care of the rest.”
Henry said the excess hair is used to make booms for oil spills. “We donate our booms to volunteer groups and indigenous groups along the shore lines.”
“But wouldn’t it be great if the oil companies would come to us to purchase these booms? That’s not happening right now.”
Aluminum colour tubes and foils are sent to specialized metal recycling facilities, while chemical waste is incinerated to create energy. Any leftover hazardous waste is securely stored by the waste management facility.
“The company is always looking for practical solutions,” she said.
Henry, who was moved by the devastation she was seeing on TV during the wildfires in Fort McMurray, had the idea of using excess hair to help the evacuees and their pets.
“We paired up with a local fabric retailer, Fabric Depot, and frantically began sewing and stuffing emergency beds for the pets affected by the wildfire,” Henry said.
The company donated 100 beds made of reclaimed hair and fabric. They were handed out free of charge by the Edmonton Humane Society.
In 2010, the company repurposed hair for emergency bedding following the earthquake in Haiti.
Green Circle Salons is the brainchild of Toronto entrepreneur Shane Price, who launched the company in 2009 with the goal of making the beauty industry sustainable by 2020.
The company expanded to Vancouver in 2012 and Calgary in 2013. By mid-2013, it started serving every postal code across the country by using couriers to pick up the waste from hair salons.
The program is funded by a small “eco-fee” charged to the client, which amounts to less than the cost of a cup of coffee at Tim’s.
Green Circle Salons also donates five per cent of its pre-tax profits to charity.
The Loft Urban Salon is one of 28 Green Circle Salons in Ottawa.
Henry said this year’s profits will go to Stand for Trees, a company that protects endangered forests in an effort to reduce the impact of climate change.
To date, some 1,100 salons in Canada and nearly 300 in the U.S. have jumped on board the program. Of these, fewer than 30 are in Ottawa.
“The growth in Ottawa has been slower than in many other Canadian cities,” Henry said. In comparison, 65 salons in Vancouver and nearly 100 salons in Edmonton and Calgary combined have joined the program.
Some small- and medium-sized business owners have been reluctant to join because they’re wary of introducing a new fee.
Arran Elliott, the owner of Studio B on Bank Street in the Glebe, said she hesitated to join the program for this reason but it was her team of stylists who sold her on the benefits to the salon and the environment.
“It took the girls a couple of months to convince me… I was nervous about it and worried about the customers but we haven’t had anyone complain.”
“It’s been working out really well,” Elliott said, adding that “people see the logo and they get really excited when they find out that’s what we’re doing.”
Elliott, who has styled the hair of local MP Catherine McKenna, said the environment minister “was pretty pumped about it.”
If there’s one complaint hair salon owners seem to have about the program, it’s that the recycling boxes are a bit of an eyesore.
“We need to jazz them up a little bit,” Elliott said.
“We need sexier boxes,” Racine said laughing.
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But what happens to all that hair after it’s been swept off the floor? Or the metal foil hairstylists use to give you that ombré hair or balayage? And what about all that extra hair product that’s left sitting in the mixing bowl?
For the most part, it goes down the drain and into the water system, or in the trash and then in a landfill.
However, if your hairdresser is a certified member of Green Circle Salons, 95 per cent of the waste is now being recycled and repurposed.
Bruno Racine, who owns The Loft Urban Salon in Ottawa with his partner Paul Valletta, said the feedback has been very positive since they joined the program.
“Today’s clients are more socially conscious. They take notice, they ask a lot of questions.”
Racine’s hairstylists throw all of their waste into one of five different recycling bins: hair, metal, chemicals, paper and plastics.
Bruno Racine of The Loft Urban Salon disposes of excess hair product in a container for chemical waste instead of pouring it down the drain.
Green Circle Salons then picks up the waste and ships it to a warehouse in Toronto. The company also has warehouses in Vancouver, Calgary and Montreal.
Once there, the waste is sorted and sent to waste management facilities for recycling and repurposing.
Hair salons in North America accumulate some 400 lbs. of waste daily. That’s a lot of hair clippings, metal foils, excess hair chemicals, paper packaging and plastic tubes.
“Our clients are 100 per cent for it,” said Racine who will be opening a new hair salon in Westboro in March and another in Toronto in April. Both will be certified with Green Circle Salons.
“It’s a win-win situation for everyone.”
Jennifer Henry, a spokeswoman for Green Circle Salons, said the program is a “custom solution that salon owners can implement in just an hour. We take care of the rest.”
Henry said the excess hair is used to make booms for oil spills. “We donate our booms to volunteer groups and indigenous groups along the shore lines.”
“But wouldn’t it be great if the oil companies would come to us to purchase these booms? That’s not happening right now.”
Aluminum colour tubes and foils are sent to specialized metal recycling facilities, while chemical waste is incinerated to create energy. Any leftover hazardous waste is securely stored by the waste management facility.
“The company is always looking for practical solutions,” she said.
Henry, who was moved by the devastation she was seeing on TV during the wildfires in Fort McMurray, had the idea of using excess hair to help the evacuees and their pets.
“We paired up with a local fabric retailer, Fabric Depot, and frantically began sewing and stuffing emergency beds for the pets affected by the wildfire,” Henry said.
The company donated 100 beds made of reclaimed hair and fabric. They were handed out free of charge by the Edmonton Humane Society.
In 2010, the company repurposed hair for emergency bedding following the earthquake in Haiti.
Green Circle Salons is the brainchild of Toronto entrepreneur Shane Price, who launched the company in 2009 with the goal of making the beauty industry sustainable by 2020.
The company expanded to Vancouver in 2012 and Calgary in 2013. By mid-2013, it started serving every postal code across the country by using couriers to pick up the waste from hair salons.
The program is funded by a small “eco-fee” charged to the client, which amounts to less than the cost of a cup of coffee at Tim’s.
Green Circle Salons also donates five per cent of its pre-tax profits to charity.
The Loft Urban Salon is one of 28 Green Circle Salons in Ottawa.
Henry said this year’s profits will go to Stand for Trees, a company that protects endangered forests in an effort to reduce the impact of climate change.
To date, some 1,100 salons in Canada and nearly 300 in the U.S. have jumped on board the program. Of these, fewer than 30 are in Ottawa.
“The growth in Ottawa has been slower than in many other Canadian cities,” Henry said. In comparison, 65 salons in Vancouver and nearly 100 salons in Edmonton and Calgary combined have joined the program.
Some small- and medium-sized business owners have been reluctant to join because they’re wary of introducing a new fee.
Arran Elliott, the owner of Studio B on Bank Street in the Glebe, said she hesitated to join the program for this reason but it was her team of stylists who sold her on the benefits to the salon and the environment.
“It took the girls a couple of months to convince me… I was nervous about it and worried about the customers but we haven’t had anyone complain.”
“It’s been working out really well,” Elliott said, adding that “people see the logo and they get really excited when they find out that’s what we’re doing.”
Elliott, who has styled the hair of local MP Catherine McKenna, said the environment minister “was pretty pumped about it.”
If there’s one complaint hair salon owners seem to have about the program, it’s that the recycling boxes are a bit of an eyesore.
“We need to jazz them up a little bit,” Elliott said.
“We need sexier boxes,” Racine said laughing.
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