Andrea’s
Organic Hair Studio & Day Spa from Naples, Florida Joins Sustainability
Initiative to Keep the Planet More Beautiful
(Naples– 8-5-15) As a member of Green Circle
Salons, Andrea’s organic Hair Studio & Day Spa is beginning a comprehensive
recycling / reuse program that will help
us to significantly reduce our
environmental impact on the planet. The program helps us to redirect out of water
streams and landfills everything once considered as garbage: hair (in 2010 Green Circle Salons sent
more than 1,000 pounds of hair to the Gulf of Mexico
to help clean the BP oil spill), foils, color tubes, paper, plastics, and
liquid chemical waste (most salons today simply rinse all leftover liquid
chemicals into the sink and down the drain).
With today’s age of GREEN &
ECO-RESPONSIBILTY, the new buzz words in business are changing us for the
better! We are very excited to take our
industry in a new direction with exceptional standards of environmental
accountability. The beauty industry
poses many challenges to the environment, from sourcing of ingredients to
disposal of packaging and products. Through our alignment with Green Circle
Salons, we hope to ameliorate our ecological footprint by implementing simple
green changes that will make both our salon, and our industry, more sustainable.
We are proud of this new partnership and knowing that Green Circle Salons is
100% traceable and fully accountable for how they handle the materials we give
them.
What does this mean
for our customers?
• Easily and quickly identify North America’s
green salon leaders through an online GCS Directory & smartphone app.
• Today, consumers vote with their dollars.
People make the choices for change. With the Green Circle platform, we empower
green consumers with choices that support both environmental and social
progress. We can now improve the beauty of our clients and the planet at the
same time.
• Peace of mind knowing that their salon has
taken meaningful steps to keep our communities healthy
• By supporting our salon, they contribute to
local and international community development, as well as environmental
research and innovation.
Key Questions:
Did you know
that currently all aluminum foils and color tubes are not being recycled and
are sent to landfill?
Recycling aluminum uses roughly 5% of the energy required to
create virgin aluminum from bauxite. Ninety- five percent of all aluminum can
be recycled over and over again, including the foils and color tubes that are
used in salons across North America. From now, GCS Member Salons will take an
environmentally responsible stand and ensure that all metals are properly
recycled. This will help to reduce the need for more landfill space, reduce our
dependence on non-renewable resources, and decrease the amount of toxins going
into our landfill sites.
Did you know
hair when placed in garbage bags will mummify, continue to fill our landfill,
and give off methane gas?
GCS Member Salons will now be diverting all hair out of landfill
and into other more sustainable projects. GCS, in connection with various partners,
is looking at ways that hair can play an important role in a number of
commercial applications. It’s exciting to know that hair can be used on our
oceans to help in oil spill clean up and recovery projects.
Did you know
that all excess chemicals including color, perm solutions and ammonia get
rinsed down the sink into our water stream?
This is the ugly truth of the industry. Our solution will be to
send all excess color waste to a hazardous waste facility where they will be
incinerated to produce clean energy!
AAndrea’s Organic Hair Studio & Day Spa
The concept of Andrea’s Organic Hair Studio is to
provide unique and personal salon and spa services that are different from a conventional
hair salon. Our professional hairstylists, nail techs, therapists and
estheticians, combine their expertise and knowledge with our friendly organic
hair, nail and skin products to provide an unparalleled organic full body
experience. About Green Circle Salons
Green Circle Salons is a company that provides a simple but
powerful green strategy to help salon reduce their environmental footprint and
get noticed by consumers looking for genuine green options. We offer a proven
pathway for salons to achieve success in the short term and be sustainable into
the future. We believe that small steps to transform each salon, with the help
of customers and employees, over time, will make that green conversion possible
and sustainable. We offer an eco‐systems approach that looks at recycling,
energy, lighting, water, cleaning products and the re‐purposing of hair‐ all
parts of the salon experience. To do this, we have our own branded services,
but also work with best‐of‐class green product and service suppliers.
We are also committed to giving back up to 5% of pre‐tax profits
to work with local and international organizations to develop and support programs
that make creative environmental impact and lessons for positive change.
Visit www.greencirclesalons.com
for more information
Contacts : Andrea’s
Organic Hair Studio & Day Spa
Andrea
Sorrenti the owner
T:
239-514-4707
Email
address organicsalon@gmail.com
Green Circle Salons (Chicago)
Amy Goei, Regional Director
T: 1-877-424-3327
Green Circle Salons (Toronto)
Shane Price, Founder and CEO
T: 1-647-341-6812
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