Ben Thompson
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 13 Jul
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That is where we do in-store challenges or partnerships with those brands to say, hey, if you bring back X amount of bottles, you get X percentage potentially off of your product.
off of your purchase, next purchase with that specific brand or something of that nature.
Yeah, so we've got these boxes that are actually going to be placed around the stores.
They're in our educational studios.
These are the collection points, but it will actually tell the owner, the independent stylist, what they are actually collecting.
But then also there's a simple QR code for them to go ahead and sign up with Green Circle Salons as well.
And they just drop it in there.
Just drop the product in here.
Exactly.
Yeah.
Participation has been fantastic.
So with Green Circle, we have deployed this to 600, just over 600 stores nationwide.
I think the amount of waste that we have collected is really surprising.
So just for instance, last year in 2025, we collected over 550,000 pounds of waste that would have been landfilled.
This product would have been destined for a landfill if not diverted through green circle salons.
And so this was at its very infant style stage with the partnership.
And so we're only continuing to see this be amplified.
Salons and the beauty industry goes through a tremendous amount of waste a day.
That is from everything from foils, from plastics, from color waste, that is
And currently, there are very minimal ways to actually collect that.
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