Mermaid Hair Extensions Salons Leading the Way in Beauty Business Sustainability

Seattle, WA, April 1, 2025– Mermaid Hair Extensions’ efforts to reduce beauty waste are helping combat climate change, one service at a time. As a part of an ongoing partnership with Green Circle Salons, the beauty industry’s first sustainable solution dedicated to fighting beauty waste, Mermaid Hair Extensions is a local leader in the sustainability space and has been since 2017.

The beauty industry creates 877 lbs of waste per minute. Mermaid is helping to change that by offsetting its scope 2 carbon emissions and recovering up to 95% of its beauty waste, including previously unrecoverable materials and hard-to-recycle items like hair clippings, foils, excess hair color, aerosol cans, and color tubes. At other beauty businesses, these waste items are sent to the landfill, which has a significant negative impact on the environment. When Mermaid sends its beauty waste to Green Circle Salons instead, it is recycled, recovered, and repurposed to give beauty waste a new life.

“I’m deeply grateful to Mermaid Hair Extensions and all our community of Waste Warriors! Together we’re reducing the world’s beauty waste and fighting to make the world a more sustainable place for all,” said Shane Price, Founder and CEO of Green Circle Salons.

 

Last year alone, Green Circle Salons’ members like Mermaid Hair Extensions helped to:
● Keep 1,358,103 lbs of beauty waste out of landfills and waterways
● Generate 85,866 kWh of clean energy was generated from Waste to Energy. That’s enough to power 94 homes for a month or charge over 7,000,000 smartphones!
● Avoided 2,742.95 metric tons of Co2e by keeping 1,358,102 lbs of beauty waste (like hair clippings, hair color, PPE, and other single-use items) out of the landfill. That’s the same as taking 610 cars off the road for a full year.

“When our clients are done using their extensions, we are happy to be able to recycle the hair in a responsible way, rather than just tossing them into the trash. We send it to a facility which turns in into bio-composite plastic products to be used for humanitarian projects.” said Cindy Reynolds, Owner of Mermaid Hair Extensions Salons.

Green Circle Salons is Zero-Waste-to-Landfill certified, meaning that 100% of the beauty waste recovered will be repurposed or recycled and will never end up in a landfill. As a Certified Sustainable Beauty Business, Mermaid is leading the movement to make beauty more beautiful.

About Green Circle Salons:

Green Circle Salons is a Certified B Corporation on a mission to solve the professional beauty industry’s waste problem. We help salons and spas across the US and Canada reduce their environmental impact by providing a comprehensive, customizable waste management solution to fit each business. Zero-Waste-to-Landfill-certified, the company partners with beauty businesses to recycle and repurpose salon-generated materials such as hair, foils, color tubes, and chemicals. Green Circle Salons also offers education and training resources to help salons adopt more sustainable practices. The company is dedicated to helping the beauty industry become more sustainable and responsible.