Beauty With a Purpose: Why Salon Red Is Proud to Be a Green Circle Salon
06.01.2026
When you leave Salon Red with fresh color, a beautiful haircut, or a confidence-boosting style, you should feel good about more than just your hair. You should also feel good knowing your salon visit supports a business that cares about making responsible choices for the environment.
At Salon Red, we believe beauty and sustainability can go hand in hand. Salon Red is committed to beauty and responsible environmental practices, which is why we’re proud to partner with Green Circle Salons, a program dedicated to helping salons reduce their environmental impact through responsible waste recovery.
Like all salons, Salon Red uses materials during services that traditionally create waste, including foils, color tubes, hair clippings, plastics, and other salon supplies. Instead of simply throwing those materials away, we’ve chosen a more responsible approach.
Through our partnership with Green Circle Salons, Salon Red participates in a verified waste-recovery system that helps recover and repurpose up to 95% of salon beauty waste instead of sending it to landfills or waterways.
You may notice a small environmental stewardship fee during your visit. That fee helps support the collection, transportation, and recovery process that makes this sustainability program possible.
Why Does Salon Red Participate in Green Circle Salons?
At Salon Red, we’ve always believed that taking care of our guests goes beyond providing beautiful hair services. It also means being mindful of the impact we have on the community and environment around us.
The beauty industry uses many materials every day, from the foils used during highlights to the color tubes used during professional color services. Traditionally, many of these items would simply be discarded.
We wanted to be part of a better solution.
By partnering with Green Circle Salons, we’re able to participate in a system that helps collect, sort, recycle, and repurpose salon waste whenever possible.
It’s one more way Salon Red is committed to doing things differently and creating a more sustainable salon experience for our guests.
What Happens to Salon Waste After My Appointment?
This is one of the questions we hear most often.
Many guests are surprised to learn that salon waste doesn’t have to end up in a landfill.
After your appointment, materials used during your service can enter a specialized recovery process through Green Circle Salons.
This includes items such as:
• Hair clippings
• Aluminum foils
• Color tubes
• Excess hair color
• Plastics
• Other salon materials
Instead of everything going into the trash, these materials are collected and processed through responsible recycling and recovery partners.
One of the most unique parts of the program is what happens to your hair clippings.
Yes, your haircut can actually help support environmental efforts!
Hair collected at Salon Red is shipped to Canada, where it can be used to help clean up oil spills. Because hair naturally absorbs oil, it can be repurposed as part of environmental cleanup solutions instead of simply being thrown away.
Even leftover hair color is handled differently. Rather than washing excess color down the drain, Salon Red participates in an environmentally responsible process for managing this waste.
It’s a small change that creates a meaningful impact.
What Does My Environmental Stewardship Fee Actually Support?
We know guests may wonder what their environmental stewardship fee goes toward.
Simply put, it helps support the systems that allow Salon Red to recover salon waste responsibly.
Your fee helps with:
• Waste collection and recovery services
• Transportation of materials to specialized recycling partners
• Processing of salon materials through approved recovery systems
• Continued support of sustainable salon practices
Without these programs in place, many salon materials would have limited options beyond traditional disposal.
Your contribution helps create a more responsible path.
How Does My Appointment Make a Positive Environmental Impact?
Every appointment at Salon Red has the potential to make a difference.
Whether you’re visiting us for:
• Hair color
• Highlights
• Balayage
• Haircuts
• Hair extensions
• Blowouts
• Treatments
• Styling services
… your appointment supports a salon that is actively working to reduce beauty waste.
Salon Red’s commitment to sustainability is already making an impact. Our 2025 Green Circle Waste Certificates show a combined total of 1,615 pounds of beauty waste recycled from our locations.
That represents materials that were recovered instead of being sent to traditional waste streams.
It may seem like one small step, but when our team and guests work together, those steps add up.
Why Choosing a Sustainable Salon Matters
Many people are already making small changes in their daily lives to support a healthier planet.
Maybe you recycle at home. Maybe you bring reusable shopping bags. Maybe you try to reduce unnecessary waste whenever possible.
Choosing a sustainable salon is another simple way to align your beauty routine with those same values.
You don’t have to change the services you love.
You can still enjoy your favorite color, cut, treatment, or styling appointment while supporting a salon that prioritizes responsible environmental practices.
It’s beauty with a purpose.
Beautiful Hair. Responsible Choices.
At Salon Red, sustainability is about making thoughtful choices while continuing to provide the exceptional salon experience our guests expect.
Our stylists are passionate about creating beautiful results, and we’re equally passionate about being responsible members of our community.
Through our partnership with Green Circle Salons, we’re helping reduce salon waste, recover valuable materials, and support environmentally responsible practices behind the scenes.
So, the next time you sit in our chair, know that your appointment is doing more than creating beautiful hair.
It’s supporting a salon that believes beauty should make a positive impact.
Salon Red is committed to beauty and responsible environmental practices. Together with Green Circle Salons and our amazing guests, we’re proving that small choices can create meaningful change one appointment at a time.
Ready to Experience Beauty With a Purpose?
Your next salon visit can be more than just a fresh new look; it can be a step toward a more sustainable future. When you choose Salon Red, you’re choosing a salon that values exceptional hair services, personalized experiences, and responsible environmental practices.
Reserve your appointment today and become part of the solution. Together, we can continue creating beautiful hair while making choices that positively impact our community and the planet. You can also give us a call at one of our two convenient Salon Red Atlanta locations: 404-373-2003, 804 Town Blvd, Suite 1045, Brookhaven, or 404-373-2868, 642 DeKalb Ave, Candler Park. Don’t wait; your dream hair is just an appointment away!
