Sustainable salon award

Christchurch-based salon Hair Art & Beauty is its industry’s top sustainable salon for 2022.

The Industry Awards recognise the best business, training and creative talent in New Zealand’s hair, beauty and barbering industries, celebrating both individual and team success.

The awards, held recently at Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre, also recognise business success, exceptional training, great workplaces, HITO apprentices and creative styling; there is a category for every hairdresser, barber or beauty therapist to enter.

The team at Hair Art & Beauty (pictured) is passionate about ecologically sustainable practices that minimise harm to the environment.

“We are committed to doing our best to run a sustainable and eco-friendly salon and we are the first salon in New Zealand to use The Big Towel Company’s eco-friendly bio-degradable towels and capes. This reduces the amount of water and electricity used to launder towels, and the amount of chemicals contaminating the environment,” says owner Carla Thompson.

A member of the Sustainable Salons group, Hair Art & Beauty now recycles over 95 percent of waste generated in the salon including plastics, metals, and chemicals. Plastic waste is converted into plastic beads and remade into furniture, packaging, and even glasses frames.