Hair salon greens their operations
Family run salon, Elan Hair Design, has undergone a green refurbishment programme to install renewable energy, increase recycling and source products from sustainable sources.
We found that the most significant solution was replacing our lights with LEDs and installing 16 PV solar panels. As a result of that change we reduced our energy bills from £6100 (€7618) to £797 (€995).
Elan is the first UK hair salon to compost hair waste, recycle aluminium foils and install zero carbon furniture. Customers' hair clippings and other biodegradable waste are sent to be used as compost on local farmer's fields, meaning less waste is sent to landfill.
We try to make sure that all of our products are recyclable, such as the bottles and packaging made from post-consumer recycled materials. We switched our waste collection company so that we could better dispose of all paper, plastic, glass, cardboard and batteries.
