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Make a paw-sitive impact with every snip and clip
The Sustainable Salons program services pet groomers of all shapes and sizes across AU & NZ.
Sustainable Salons is a resource recovery service that diverts 95% of salon resources from landfill and transforms those resources into a force for good, while also aiming to benefit the community and your grooming business's bottom line.
Guess what!? We’ve just launched a new groomer-specific membership.
This membership includes all the existing benefits, like on-demand courier pick-ups, team training materials, and placement on our salon directory.
The difference? It’s a subscription tailored to your business’s recycling needs, so you only receive and pay for the collection bags.
Planet
Divert 95% of salon materials from landfill
We divert your materials from going to landfill and find innovative new solutions for them! You will receive an annual impact certificate so you know what you've saved from landfill and so you can share your positive impact with your clients.
People
Proceeds from recycling help feed those in need
When you choose to recycle your materials with Sustainable Salons, we donate the proceeds to OzHarvest and KiwiHarvest to provide meals for hungry people. Just $1 = 2 hearty meals for someone in need.
Profit
Attract more paw-some new clients
By becoming a Sustainable Salon, your business is listed on AU & NZ’s #1 Salon Directory. With more than 10,000 visits to the directory each month, the program is actively driving conscious new clients to your door.
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Planet
Divert 95% of salon materials from landfill
We divert your materials from going to landfill and find innovative new solutions for them! You will receive an annual impact certificate so you know what you've saved from landfill and so you can share your positive impact with your clients.
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People
Proceeds from recycling help feed those in need
When you choose to recycle your materials with Sustainable Salons, we donate the proceeds to OzHarvest and KiwiHarvest to provide meals for hungry people. Just $1 = 2 hearty meals for someone in need.
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Profit
Attract more paw-some new clients
By becoming a Sustainable Salon, your business is listed on AU & NZ’s #1 Salon Directory. With more than 10,000 visits to the directory each month, the program is actively driving conscious new clients to your door.
Our Impact
1,992,522kg
Total resources diverted from landfill and transformed into forces for good
329,906
Meal donations to OzHarvest and KiwiHarvest, to help feed those in need in our community
74,491
Salon bookings for our member network, sourced from ANZ's #1 salon directory
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1,992,522kg
Total resources diverted from landfill and transformed into forces for good
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329,906
Meal donations to OzHarvest and KiwiHarvest, to help feed those in need in our community
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74,491
Salon bookings for our member network, sourced from ANZ's #1 salon directory
Did you know pet fur can help clean up oil spills?!
The fur from your salon can be used to make a hair boom.
These hair booms are dispatched to aid in oil spill clean-up on land and in our oceans. One hair boom can soak up to 4 litres of crude oil! See how the fur from your salon can help in oil spill clean-up by watching the video below…..
Materials we collect
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Metals
By recycling metals, like salon foils and colour tubes, we contribute to a greener future and also generate proceeds to feed those in need. -
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Plastics
With the salon industry's heavy use of plastics, we knew a real impact can (and has!) been made by recycling it all and creating sustainably stylish new products. -
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Paper
Whether it’s the magazines that keep your clients occupied, cardboard packaging from your products, wooden spatulas or just plain old office paper, we’ve got you covered. -
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Hair
Hair is one of the most underestimated renewable resources out there. That’s why we’ve done the research and developed new ways to repurpose recycled hair. -
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Ponytails
Ponytail donations from your salon clients can be used to create high-quality charitable medical wigs for those suffering medically induced hair loss. -
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Chemicals
Instead of salon chemicals being rinsed down the sink and polluting our waterways, we help give them a second life by neutralising them to be reused as recycled water. -
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Sharps
Sustainable Salons is on a mission to “move the needle” and ensure your clinic's sharps are disposed of ethically and responsibly, preventing sharps from going to landfill. -
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Disposables
We made it easy breezy to ensure your disposables are efficiently processed and diverted from landfill, reducing the environmental impact of the salon industry. -
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Razors
We divert razors from going to landfill and ensure they are safely processed and recycled. Like other materials we collect, razors can be made into new products. -
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Tools
Tools like hair dryers, clippers, curling wands and straighteners can all be collected, recycled responsibly and diverted from landfill. -
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& More
Not sure whether or not you can recycle a certain material? Take a look to see what other resources we can collect, recycle and give a meaningful second life.
How the program works
Join the 'paw'-gram in 4 simple steps
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Enquire now
Our friendly team will send you some further info on how the program works. If you like what you see - we'll help you start on your sustainability journey.
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Join the movement
Become a Sustainable Salon and kickstart a positive change that benefits the planet, community and your salon's bottom line.
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Get your kit
We provide all the merchandise, equipment and resources you need to become a certified sustainable business.
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Train your team
We train you and your team to become sustainability warriors so you can make huge impact together.
Our customers care about our impact
Our customers and our staff care deeply about the future and the impact we have on our communities. Having a sustainable partnership with Sustainable Salons means that we can minimise our stores footprint. We are inspired by innovation that enables us to collect dog hair from our salons to assist in oil clean-up projects in addition to recycling plastics, paper and metals. Every pooch contributes too!
- Margaret Hennessy, Dogue, Australia
FAQs
We service businesses of all shapes and sizes in the hair, barber, beauty, dermal and pet grooming industries. This includes home salons and mobile groomers too!
Membership starts at $75 and is based on the recycling needs of your business, rather than based on the number of clients you have per week.
Our team will work with you to customise the membership level to suit your recycling needs. You can change your level of membership at any time, no lock-in contracts!
We accept clean, dry pet hair from the body and legs. We are unable to repurpose fur that is matted, dirty, has fleas or poo.
Yes, we have three differing sizes available for our bins to suit businesses of all shapes & sizes. Our team will work with you to ensure that our bins cater to your space.
If you have a question that isn’t answered above contact us today and one of our friendly team members will be in touch with more information.