Sustainability at Lush Hair Folk Salon

At Lush Hair Folk Salon, we believe beauty shouldn’t come at the expense of our planet. As a certified Green Circle Salon, we’re committed to offering you exceptional salon services while minimizing our environmental footprint. Every haircut, color treatment, and styling service you receive with us contributes to a more sustainable beauty industry. We ensure that up to 95% of our beauty waste—including hair clippings, used foils, excess hair color, and single-use items—is responsibly recycled or repurposed, rather than ending up in landfills or waterways.

What We Recycle at Lush Hair Folk Salon

When you visit our salon, you can feel good knowing that virtually everything we use gets a second life:

Hair Clippings

Those snippets of your hair that fall to the floor? They're collected and repurposed for environmental cleanup. Just one pound of hair can absorb one quart of oil in under a minute, making it perfect for cleaning oil spills. Your haircut could literally help save marine ecosystems!

Metals & Foils

The industry discards 110,000 pounds of metal (like color tubes and foils) daily. We collect and send all our metal waste for recycling, where it can be melted down into aluminum sheets for products like cars and bicycles.

Hair Color & Chemicals

The beauty industry washes 42,000 pounds of excess hair color down drains daily, affecting water systems with harmful chemicals. At our salon, we safely collect all excess color, which Green Circle converts into clean energy.

Single-Use Items

Everything from gloves and masks to waxing materials and cotton swabs is collected and processed through a waste-to-energy system, creating renewable energy while keeping these items out of landfills.

Transforming Waste into Resources

Every service at Lush Hair Folk Salon contributes to our collective environmental impact. Since Green Circle Salons began in 2009, their community has kept over 10 million pounds of waste out of landfills and waterways. In 2023 alone, Green Circle Salons diverted 1,358,103 pounds of beauty waste.

By choosing our salon, you’re not just getting a great haircut or color-you’re being part of the solution to beauty industry waste. Looking gorgeous shouldn’t cost the Earth, and at Lush Hair Folk Salon, we prove that beauty and sustainability go hand in hand.

Green Circle Salon Certified