SalonCycle launches to help UK hair & beauty salons recycle waste

International recycling company, TerraCycle, has launched SalonCycle in the UK: a scheme to help hair and beauty pros and salons divert their hard-to-recycle waste from landfill and incineration.

Following a successful launch in the US, SalonCycle’s UK unveiling offers a simple and convenient recycling solution to businesses in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, without complex separation of materials.

According to British Beauty Council figures, 14% of hair and beauty industry packaging makes it to a recycling plant and only 9% is recycled.

To take part in the SalonCycle programme, pros and salons must order the scheme’s boxes, which are shipped to them. These are a Human Hair Composting Box and Mixed Salon Waste Recycling Box (a box in which metal and plastic items are collected together, to be remoulded into products like metal sheeting, flooring tiles, shipping pallets and outdoor furniture).

Once placed in designated high-traffic areas of a hair/beauty salon, waste can be collected. When these boxes are full, businesses can send them to TerraCycle using pre-affixed UPS shipping labels, where the waste is sorted, cleaned, processed and remoulded.

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Julien Tremblin, general manager at TerraCycle Europe, comments: “We are delighted to be launching SalonCycle in the UK, as the amount of waste produced by the haircare and beauty industries is substantial.

“When developing SalonCycle, we listened to salons and their biggest request was for a simple and easy to use solution that isn’t confusing for staff. Having to separate waste into many different subcategories can be confusing and ultimately act as a barrier to adoption in the salon.”

Ashley Grey, salon manager at Clementine’s in Arvada, Colorado, US, adds: “SalonCycle has been a great addition to our salon. The programme has been intelligently designed to integrate seamlessly into our operations, making recycling an effortless and automatic part of our daily routine. It feels good to know that we have diverted over 500kg of waste from landfills.”

To find out more about SalonCycle, visit www.saloncycle.co.uk