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168 | NAILS MAGAZINE | APRIL 2014 IS YOUR SALON GREEN? E-mail your pictures and stories to tracy.rubert@bobit.com for a chance to make NAILS' Earth Day Honor Roll next year. Finally, it's important to educate employees and share your knowledge with other nail techs. A new guide is available from NAEFSS aimed at taking the mystery out of terms such as sustainability, eco-friendly, green, and eco-consciousness, specifi cally relating them back to individual business models. The NAEFSS Salon & Spa Sustainability Packet is also available on the website. It includes one to two hours of free phone consultation and specifi c details to create a plan for impactful changes. EDUCATION Revive Nails & Co., Chicago. The majority of Revive's decor comes from discarded wood pallets taken from construction waste sites and given new life. They use cloth towels to eliminate paper waste, and glass and ceramic cups to serve tea, water, or wine instead of wasting plastic cups or water bottles. Their pedicure fl ip-fl ops are washed and reused. They recycle half-empty nail polish bottles, and for the year 2014, they have reached out to local nail salons to collect empty or unused nail polish bottles, which in turn will be donated to a local artist to turn into artwork. E A R T H D A Y H O N O R R O L L For more information on greening your salon, see www.nailsmag.com/list/topic/green-salons n a 0 4 1 4 e c o . i n d d 1 6 8 na0414eco.indd 168 2 / 2 5 / 1 4 3 : 5 9 P M 2/25/14 3:59 PM