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n our April 2016 issue, we featured Canadi-
an-based company, GreenCircle Salons and inter-
viewed founder and CEO, Shane Price, who gave
us every detail he could about the company and
the benefits the company promises for both the salon
and the environment.
GreenCircle Salons is a company that aims to make
the salon industry sustainable by the year 2020. Price
started the company in 2009 in Toronto, Canada to look
for ways to help salons be genuinely green, generate
revenues as part of the program, and help bring in cli-
ents with an app called My Green Salon. They started
with a case study of 20 salons in 2009 to see how the
program would work and in 2010, they started to bring
in their first salons. In 2016, Price told us that they have
over a thousand salons in every community province in
Canada and have also offered to every US based salon.
With a program called Hair Mail, salons package
waste materials in a box and have GreenCircle’s 24-
hour logistics company pick up the box and ship it to
their warehouses located in British Columbia, Alberta,
Toronto, Chicago and Seattle. From there, the segrega-
tion process begins and every bit of waste is properly
disposed of or put to good use. The separated waste
is recycled or repurposed to either aid in cleaning the
environment or to create materials such as composite
boards. For example, hair is collected and packed to-
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gether in used nylon stocking to create oil booms. These
oil booms are used to absorb the oil from oil spills, thus
saving the environment from the effects that these inci-
dents can have.
GreenCircle only requires a small Environmental
Stewardship Fee of $2 for every single receipt from a
paying customer. A portion of that $2 goes to Green-
Circle to cover the costs of running the program, while
the remainder goes to what they call a Green Change
Purse that allows salons to reinvest in technology to