Beautifully Sustainable: Six Steps to a Greener Salon

The interest in eco-friendly products and services is taking the world of beauty by storm, leading manufacturers, retailers and beauty professionals to focus their efforts on clean and sustainable processes. Between beauty packaging, unused or excess product, foils, color tubes, hair, and more, salons in the US and Canada produce over 400,000 pounds of waste…

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Exploring “Zero Waste”: What Hair Salons Should Know

Globally, we generate an enormous amount of trash: at least ​3.5 million tons of plastic and other solid waste each day​ (ten times the amount we did a century ago). Unfortunately, the U.S. leads the pack, producing ​250 million tons of trash per year​ or 4.4 pounds per person each day. Sadly, the waste we…

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Hair Recycling for Salons: Everything You Need to Know

Every month, the salon industry churns out thousands of pounds of waste that ends up in landfills. Much of that waste is human hair — a surprisingly versatile material that, when recycled, can be transformed into useful products for a wide range of industries.  At GLO™, we’ve made hair recycling easy. Our process is simple,…