RECYCLING RESOURCES
These are important resources that you can use everyday to help recycle all kinds of materials.
These ones in particular are to support recycling for beauty professionals and
beauty enthusiasts in their local community.
for: essentially everything
A search engine for locating your nearest recycling program or center
EARTH911
for: scrap metal (foil, product tubes)
A search engine for locating your nearest scrap metal yard
ISCRAPP APP
for: food waste and hair
A state-by-state list for complied compost businesses
LITTERLESS
for: soft plastic
A search engine for finding your nearest major retailer for recycling for NexTrex deck products
NEXTREX
for: hard-to-recycle materials
Mail away program or in-store drop off for personal care, school supplies, and more
TERRACYCLE
for: beauty packaging
In-store drop off for hard-to-recycle beauty packaging
PACT COLLECTIVE
for: synthetic hair
REBUNDLE offers banana fiber alternative to synthetic hair extensions, as well as recycling old synthetic hair for their partners
REBUNDLE
Here are a few paid services that can also support salon recycling!
for: hair clippings
A search engine to find local farms, where hair could be beneficial for their compost or natural pest repellant
LOCAL HARVEST
SALON RECYCLING
GREEN SALON COLLECTIVE
for: salon waste
Mail away program and R&D business for salons and beauty professionals in the U.K and U.S
for: salon waste
Mail away program for salons and beauty professionals in Canada and U.S
GREEN CIRCLE SALONS
for: salon waste
Mail away program for salons and beauty professionals in the U.S
SALONCYCLE
CLOSE THE LOOP KITS
for: cosmetic waste
Mail away for big salons, brands, and small businesses
BEAUTY FOR THE PLANET
“Did you know that over 95% of the chemicals used today in consumer products have never been tested for health and safety[?]”
This app will help you identify what ingredients are in your cosmetics and will help you shop for alternative products.
Redify
If you’re looking for the best place to find vegan and cruelty-free products, Cruelty-Free Kitty has a set of guidelines and a well typed out list that includes cruelty-free, vegan, sustainable, black-owned, and clean products.
Cruelty-Free Kitty
A collective of beauty companies that are standing their ground and making calling for others to join and to contact their government about better practices and regulations in the industry.
Code Red 4 Climate
Ending Hair Discrimination.
Created in 2019 by Dove and the CROWN Coalition, in partnership with then State Senator Holly J. Mitchell of California, to ensure protection against discrimination based on race-based hairstyles.
The Crown Act
A global alliance of salons/shops committed to providing positive, gender-affirming services for LGBTQ2S+ clients.
Educating and empowering hair stylists and barbers to give people haircuts that help them look the way they feel.
The Dresscode Project
Clean Beauty for Black Girls brings awareness and education to a community that is provided with lesser options for safer and cleaner personal care products… until now.
Clean Beauty for Black Girls
This organization collects used mascara wands to give to wildlife organizations to repurpose them for help clean injured and rehabilitated animals.
They’ve grown so much that they’ve expanded to a program called Wand Art, which creates art of the old tubes that come from them.
(check to make sure they are collecting at this time)
Wands for Wildlife
This is an extension of the Matter of Trust Organization, it provides peer-to-peer communication to (usually) collect hair trimmings that can be sent to be made into hair matts or hair booms for oil spills. Doing this will exert less energy and resources plus provide a communication platform for other interesting eco-initiatives.
The Hum Sum
State-by-state directory of Refillery/Zero Waste shops. Refilleries are a great resource for beauty and household products, as well as alternatives and ideas for your own business.
The Refillery Directory
Petitions
Four bills pushing Congress to reform our cosmetics safety guidelines. Current regulations haven’t been updated for decades and companies are able to sell products without disclosing all of the ingredients that are beauty products, especially ones that are known to be harmful to humans.
Safer Beauty Bill Package
Pushing bills to end discrimination based on hairstyles in all 50 states.
Currently 14 states have passed this bill or a bill inspired by it.
The Crown Act
The Energy Innovation & Carbon Dividend Act
“H.R. 2307” introduces a carbon tax on businesses that go straight into the pockets of American citizens, creating a fair and easier transition for renewable energy and reducing America’s carbon footprint to net zero by 2050.