We have visited four different hairdressers in Vennesla to learn what they do with their waste, and what they do to save energy. We visited "Grethe’s salon", "Monica’ s salon", "Egon’ s hairdresser" and "Drop In".

"Grethe`s salon"

At Grethe` s salon we were told that the chemicals in the hair coloring substances were not poisonous, so they just let the chemicals go down the drain. All the hair and other kinds of waste are thrown into a cardboard box that is placed at her back room. When the box was full, she took it with her to the basement. There it was pressed together and later sent to recycling.

To lower the use of energy they turned off the lights at night. She did not use any saving bulbs. The temperature was regulated by a  thermostat that we used over the whole building.

At Monica`s salon, the daily leader told us that the hair waste went into a hair collector. When this was full, the hair was thrown into a brown garbage can. The cardboard boxes that were around her products, were thrown into a green garbage can. When sometimes hair coloring substances were left, she throws it into the sink.

In this case, the energy and water expenses were shared with the store next door. The lights are dimmed at night.

When we were at Egon` s salon, we did not get much information because the daily leader was not there under this interwiev. But like in all the other salons we got to know that the hair was drawn into a machine and some of the lights are on at night.

At the end we went to the salon "Drop In". Also here the hair was thrown in the trash. The waste was divided into two main groups, paper/cardboard go usual trash.

At "Drop In" the lights were turned of at night. Except from this, we did not find out more about their energy saving.

The waste was thrown in the trash, while somebody was more accurate about sorting their waste. Some examples are cardboard, plastic and hair.