Sustainable Salons in Seattle

We've been thinking a lot about sustainability and our role as business owners. Some of the things we are doing to help the environment is reducing our paper waste. For example, we're buying more washable hand towels so we can eliminate paper towels.

We now have 5 recylce bins throughout the salon and our offices to help reduce, reuse and recycle.

On the business side, we are now scanning all of our receipts and then recyling them. The IRS requires us to save them for 7 years. Here's some interesting stats about how wasteful receipts are...

220,000 tons of receipt paper produced each year in the USA alone.
1 Ton of Paper = 17 Trees
220,000 tons of receipt paper = 3,740,000 Trees cut ONLY for receipts

By recycling your receipts after putting them online, you will not save only trees:

1 Ton of paper also represents:
- 6953 gallons of water
- 463 gallons of oil
- 587 pounds of air pollution
- 3.06 cubic yards of landfill space
- 4077 Kilowatt hours of energy.

Best of all, it's free! Check it out here