ENVIRONMENT
5 steps to become a zero waste to landfill nail salon
Green Salon Collective (GSC) was founded in 2020 by environmental experts, campaigners and beauty professionals, with an aim to help member salons in the UK and Ireland to responsibly dispose of their waste. Here, GSC shares how to tackle your salon waste and become zero to landfill, to reduce your overall…
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Beauty brands encouraged to switch from plastic bottles in eco-friendly initiative
Molded fibre packaging manufacturer, NBCo, has launched Fast Forward 50, to help beauty and personal care brands transition away from single-use plastic bottles. The first 50 brands that sign up to the initiative will each be offered a free 200ml (122mm x 60mm) NBCo fibre bottle, allowing them to test…
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Sustainable beauty: Here’s how to recycle your nail salon waste
With a number of day-to-day considerations to navigate, how you manage your salon waste can often be pushed to the back of your mind. But it’s easier than you think to respect the environment through your work, as we highlight via our roundup of recycling schemes and tips. Green Salon…
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While recycling plays a big part of helping the environment, running a sustainable business is so much more than just that. There are many factors to consider when seeking to make your business more sustainable. It is important to try to source sustainable products from the get-go, but it is…
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Sustainability Matters The global climate strike, stark and scary documentaries, electric cars, reusable coffee cups… over the past few years, sustainability has become more and more ingrained into our daily lives and the choices that we make. So, if we’re trying our best as consumers, are the brands and businesses…
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After running her own home salon for 5 years, Zee Broomhall decided to create her own product range after trying to find more sustainable options for her own business. “When aiming to be more sustainable in my own salon I came across many barriers. I couldn’t get all the alternatives…
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Salon booking service, Treatwell, reveals the importance of sustainability, organic/eco products and ‘being green’ when choosing a hair, beauty or wellness salon and treatments. For Treatwell, ‘Earth Day’ – 22nd of April – is about connecting customers with sustainable and eco-friendly salons and treatments, undertaking research* conducted in April 2021,…
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Christmas is around the corner, and this year’s festivities look set to be more digital than traditional. With new lockdowns being implemented in the UK and beyond, the likelihood of people turning to online retailers for presents remains high. Traditional bricks-and-mortar shops accounted for £60.9 billion worth of sales in…
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Plastic Pollution with a Solution By the year 2050 there will be more plastic than fish by weight in the sea. Production of recycled resin uses 85% less energy and emits 75% fewer greenhouse gasses than the production of virgin resin. The Kevin Murphy haircare range uses Ocean Waste Plastic…
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