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BECOME A GREEN SALON

The beauty industry creates 877lbs of waste per minute. Our mission is to change that.

Created by our Founder and CEO alongside beauty industry leaders, our award-winning program empowers salons to recover up to 95% of their beauty waste. That includes previously unrecoverable materials and hard-to-recycle items like hair clippings, foils, excess hair color, aerosol cans, and color tubes.

 

Our goal is to help salons and spas be green, build revenue, gain clients, and save money in a way that’s ethical and simple. We do that while also ensuring our own operations and practices are carbon neutral and sustainable. We’ve been certified by B Corp to acknowledge that we meet the highest standards of environmental and social responsibility. 

Our Values Change starts from within

Think Sustainably

We’re being the change we want to see in the world. We’re making beauty beautiful.

Lead with a Big Heart

We act with courage and humility, and we value diversity and inclusion.

See the Possibilities

We see challenges as opportunities, carve our own path and go where no one has gone before.

Go All In

We go above and beyond every day to help bring our mission to life.

Our Journey From 2009 to today.

Back in 2009, Shane Price, our Founder and CEO, started noticing firsthand the beauty industry’s waste challenges. He knew there must be a better way. With a passion for the industry and a background in science, he launched Green Circle Salons, the world’s first sustainable salon solution.
2009
2009
We brought on our first clients. Located in Toronto, Canada, we helped our first member salons recycle their hair, foils, plastic and paper.
2010
2010
We supported disaster relief efforts in Haiti and the Gulf of Mexico. In 2010, Haiti was struck by a devastating earthquake, and later that year an oil spill affected the Gulf of Mexico. We donated relief supplies made from recovered hair, such as sleeping mats and oil booms.
2011
2011
We launched our excess hair color recovery program. That meant we could start accepting and recycling excess hair color - helping to keep the 42,000 pounds of excess hair colour that’s washed down the drain every day from our waterways!
2012
2012
We headed west. In 2012, we brought on our first 30 salons in British Columbia, Canada.
2013
2013
We continued to expand across Canada. We started to service Montreal, Quebec and Calgary, Alberta.
2014
2014
We launched hAIRmail. That meant we were able to go national and service all of Canada by letting salons mail their waste to us.
2014
2014
We entered the US, beginning with Chicago. Launching on Earth Day, we had 12 American salons sign up on the first day.
2015
2015
We made waves in the industry. We participated in and recovered beauty waste from notable industry events like Redken Symposium, Serious Business, Trifecta and Aveda Congress.
2015
2015
Launched partnership with Davines. Davines is a sustainable haircare line formulated in Italy. As a fellow BCorp certified company, our partnership really was a perfect union that ensures their sustainably sourced product is recovered in the most environmentally responsible way.
2016
2016
We started building important partnerships with industry leaders. We partnered with Kevin Murphy and Estée Lauder audited our facilities to finalize our partnership with Aveda.
2016
2016
We supported disaster relief efforts in Fort McMurray, Alberta. In the summer of 2016, wildfires ravaged the community of Fort McMurray. We partnered with Salon Magazine and Fabric depot to donate pet beds made from recovered hair to the Fort McMurray Humane Society.
2017
2017
We started researching and developing hair-based plastics. Our lab began efforts to combine recovered hair and recycled plastics to create bio-composite plastic, which is stronger and lighter than regular plastic.
2017
2017
Chatters joined Green Circle Salons. Our Educators in each region helped to train and onboard all 116 locations.
2017
2017
Participated in a project with Fleming College. We received funding from the Canadian government's Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, to run a project with Fleming College's Centre for Advancement of Water and Wastewater Technologies.
2018
2018
We launched the Boutique program. It’s important to us to help all salons - big and small - recover their beauty waste. Our Boutique program was created specifically to help smaller salons keep people and the planet beautiful.
2019
2019
Became BCorp and Zero Waste To Landfill Certified. These certifications demonstrate that we meet the highest standards of social and environmental performance.
2019
2019
Celebrated our 10 year anniversary! 10 years of keeping people and the planet beautiful!
2019
2019
We donated $6400 to the Amazon Conservation Team. Our donation went towards recovery efforts on behalf of our new member salons.
2021
2021
Launched the Carbon Neutral Salon Benefit. In partnership with ClimatePartner, this program offsets the carbon emissions created by each member salon. This means every Green Circle Salons member will be providing their guests with environmentally friendly and carbon neutral services! In 2025, we switched to 1% for the Planet.
2021
2021
In partnership with Virginia Tech, we created and manufactured something truly exciting - a new and one-of-a-kind recycling bin made from recycled plastics and recovered hair! By using hair to reinforce our new bio-composite recycling bins, they are stronger and lighter than regular plastic, making them a sleek and stylish longer-term solution for salons to collect beauty waste.
2022
2022
We launched Green Circle Salons for Independent Artists. Independent beauty professionals are different from larger salons. With less space to collect waste and a desire for greater flexibility, they needed a program that could be customized to meet their unique needs. That’s why we launched our Independent Artists Program! This program helps independent beauty professionals recover up to 95% of their beauty waste and become carbon-neutral in a new easy way.