Ben Thompson

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Sustainably Speaking · How Salons Are Reducing Waste · 13 Jul 2026 podcast

No, thank you.

I've enjoyed showing you around and definitely bringing this to the forefront of the industry as well.

I joined Salon Centric just about a year and a half ago, and I joined from PepsiCo, where I was part of the global packaging research and development team leading global sustainability and commercialization for food and beverages.

So coming from food and beverage, the industry, yes, while it does have its challenges, they are very advanced in their progression towards sustainability and packaging holistically.

Yes, there are some nuanced areas, but when you come to the beauty and cosmetics industry, it is a very much untapped industry.

Salon Centric was a great opportunity to figure out ways to bring sustainability from a brand owner perspective, but also a retailing environment.

What challenges are facing the beauty industry when it comes to sustainability?

So when it comes to sustainability, we have a lot of single use items from applicators, we have mixed material components, we have flexible packaging, we have

Pretty much anything you can think of under the sun.

So we as Salon Centric are promoting ways for salon owners and independent stylists to choose products that are more potentially sustainable or offer up services that drive sustainable products.

initiatives within their environment.

So one example is going to be our partnership with Green Circle Salons, which is a outlet for a salon to recycle up to 95% of their waste.

And they can recycle everything from single-use applicators to foils that you're taking out of someone's hair after a coloring process.

all the way to the hair clippings.

So they take the full gamut.

So that partnership, it avails them because of all of the different brands that we work with here at Salon Centric.

We are engaging the salon owners, the stylists, and bringing back products that they wouldn't normally actually think of, recycling them and then giving them a second life to actually work with Green Circle.

And then the brands will reincorporate that plastic.

As of right now...

There are some financial motivations that brands will participate in to get them going and get them more engaged.

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