THE SEED BANK In 2023, we reached our 25th Anniversary and patted ourselves on the back for a chunk of met goals for the charity. At MofT, we love a list and a long-term plan. Therefore, we decided to sit down with the knowledge we have accrued, the experts we have...
CORKS Thank you for uncorking this corker of an idea with us! We need to keep corks out of the waste stream and we need cork because it is nature’s little buoys for our all oil spill booms! PLEASE NOTE: This page is under construction, we will be adding...
FIBRARY We are collecting many fiber donations for our Hair Matters program, some of them are more exotic than others. With our research partners we also started looking at the properties of different types of hair, fur, fleece. Soon we got the idea from...
(WKRC) – A non-profit organization uses an often discarded part of the body to clean up deadly oil spills: the hair on your head. No, they won’t flip you over and use you like a mop. Matter of Trust has developed a variety of programs to stimulate and...
What if the key to cleaning up deadly oil spills in the ocean was right there on your head? According to Matter of Trust, a non-profit organization started by Lisa and Patrice Gautier, it is. They say human hair acts as a natural oil spill cleanup tool that’s...
