RECYCLE CAPS WITH AVEDA

RECYCLE CAPS WITH AVEDA

Aveda found that a majority of plastic bottle caps do not get recycled today.

Often these caps end up as litter or trash, ending up in landfills and beaches or migrating into our rivers and oceans. Birds and other marine creatures mistake them for food with tragic results. The magnitude of this pollution problem is devastating to our oceans and wildlife.

For more information from Aveda check out this link. http://aveda.aveda.com/aboutaveda/caps.asp

LIV Aveda Salon & Spa has been part of this program from the beginning. Most of the collecting has been a grass roots approach in the Mankato, MN area. Most of the caps have come from guests who are part of the local school systems, or children of our guests who want to do something to help the Earth.

You can be part of the solution by joining Recycle Caps with Aveda.

Aveda's recycling initiative helps extend the current boundaries of recycling and elicit participation from all corners of our community. With the help of our network of salons and stores, in partnership with community schools, Aveda is building a new recycling program for plastic bottle caps in which caps are collected at stores and schools and then sent by Aveda to our recycler where the material is recycled into new caps and containers. Aveda has been able to work closely with our suppliers to develop ways to make new caps and containers from the recycled caps. We hope to ship new products using this reworked, environmentally-friendly material later this year.

If you have caps that need recycling feel free to drop them off at LIV Aveda Salon & Spa.

1839 Adams Street
Mankato, MN 56001

507-388-1559

http://www.livsalonspa.com/

Recently the Girl Scouts of America approached Aveda Corp. to help collect caps. General Manager of LIV Aveda Salon & Spa, Magen Feuchtenberger stated, "The Girls Scouts of America contacted us to see if they can partner with us as a drop spot for the local chapters". "We didn't anticipate just how many caps would show up". Co-Owner of LIV Aveda Salon & Spa Tami Tupy said, "Just this weeks we've had thousands of caps dropped off and it is sad to know that for years many of these caps have been ending up in landfills."

The pictures below shows you just how many caps we received in one day.