Hair swept from salon floors can become something much more useful.
We turn waste hair collected from salons into hair mats designed
to help tackle oil and pollution.
What is a hair mat?
Salon hair.
Felted into action.
Hair mats are made using waste hair collected from salon floors.
Instead of sending those clippings to landfill or incineration,
the hair is collected, processed and felted together into mats.
Why? Because human hair has a naturally useful property:
it can adsorb oils and pollutants onto the surface of its fibres.
By transforming thousands of individual hair clippings into a
dense mat, we can turn a salon waste stream into a useful material.
Same haircut.
Very different ending.
How it's made
From salon floor to hair mat.
A simple idea that gives salon hair another purpose.
01
Collect
Hair clippings are collected from salon floors by Green Salon
Collective members rather than being thrown into general waste.
02
Transform
The waste hair is processed and felted together, transforming
thousands of loose clippings into a dense mat.
03
Put it to work
The finished material can then be used in applications where
hair's natural ability to adsorb oils can be put to use.
Why hair?
A waste material hiding in plain sight.
Every day, huge quantities of cut hair are swept from salon floors.
Traditionally, much of that material has simply been treated as waste.
But hair is a material. And when we start looking at it that way,
rather than as rubbish, there are all sorts of possibilities for
giving it another life.
Hair mats are one of the ways Green Salon Collective is working
to change what happens after a haircut.
A closer look
This used to be salon waste.
Sometimes the difference between
waste and a resource
is simply what you choose to do with it.
It starts in the salon
Don't bin it.
Recycle it.
Hair mats are just one of the ways we give salon hair another
purpose. By recycling your hair with Green Salon Collective,
the clippings from your salon can become part of something bigger.
