SUSTAINABILITY
Ashes to Ashes
We’ve Gone Green to Save the World from Burning
Did you know salons produce difficult to manage waste often contaminated with bleach, hair color chemicals, and other toxins? A typical salon has high water consumption, high energy usage, and releases chemical by-product down the drain. As they create beauty, they make waste.
BOSS HAIR GROUP is part of the green movement. We strive to be eco-friendly wherever possible and attract green-minded clients that want to reduce their footprint. This is why BOSS HAIR GROUP has teamed up with Green Circle Salons, as well as ECOHEADS!
Green Circle Salons (GCS) is the beauty industry’s pathway to sustainability. GCS are innovators, pioneering truly sustainable solutions for repurposing, recycling, and capturing 95 percent of salon and spa waste since 2009. Their 1500+ member salons span nearly every state and province in North America. Green Circle Salons serve their member salons via their fleet of carbon offset vehicles and carbon offset couriers.
GCS teach each member salon how to properly separate materials for collection and how to attract new green-minded clients. They collect, recycle, and repurpose our salon’s hair (yes, even the hair), foils, colour-tubes, papers, plastic, glass, waste, and divert excess hair chemicals from being rinsed down the drain.
Green Circle Salons further serve their salons by coaching them in making green changes to the operations of their salon s such as LED lighting, renewable energy, organic tea and coffee, eco-friendly cleaning products, and installing water-saving faucets in a way that saves money, month after month.
Green Circle Salons are committed to giving back 5 percent of their pre-tax profits to work with local and international organizations to support programs that create positive social and environmental change.
And speaking of water saving faucets…
At your next service appointment, you can sit back and relax with even greater confidence that you’ve picked the best beauty artisans. Why? As we shampoo your hair, we’re only using the cleanest, safest and most luxurious water when we rinse thanks to our commitment to clean water and water conservation. While each ECOHEAD has a sub-micron plate to increase water pressure even as it reduces water flow, the real genius of ECOHEADS is the unique 2 step filtration process to ensure water is free of any contaminants.
This means that whatever the water pressure coming through our water system, the pressure coming out of our showerheads is consistent and set at the optimum rate to gently massage the scalp and stimulate blood flow. These cool looking showerheads also generate negative ions during the process, softening the water and ensuring a firm, yet gentle stream of deionized water coating your strands. Did we mention genius?
We are very proud to announce that following the installation of ECOHEADS showerheads on each of our shampoo stations, we have can save more than 100 gallons of water per bowl each and every day. BOSS HAIR GROUP has 3 shampoo basins; that adds up to 309 gallons saved every day. That’s 1545 gallons saved each week and 6695 gallons saved every month!
And it is all done without any compromise on service or care. The genius innovation actually increases water pressure while saving water, and filters it for a clean, fresh supply. So now every time you visit you know you are part of a community that cares about the planet. Let’s rinse to that!
BOSS HAIR GROUP is proud to be in partnership with the Green Circle Salons and ECOHEADS. We’re always on the lookout for new ways to reduce our waste and lessen our environmental impact. Additionally, in order to continue our membership with GCS, a $5 “Eco fee” will be added to each service ticket to help aid in our contribution of helping our environment stay green and sustainable by recycling over 95% of our salon waste. If you have any additional eco-friendly ideas, please get in touch with us!