SFGATE Big mats of human hair are being used to save Bay Area beaches. You can give yours. For the past few decades, Lisa Craig Gautier and her team at San Francisco-based nonprofit Matter of Trust have used mats made out of human and animal hair to help clean beaches...
This unexpected material might be in your next sweater… Entrepreneurs are looking for ways to recycle human hair, including weaving clippings swept off the floor of salons and barbershops into clothes. CONTINUE READING… Washington Post – Dutch...
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — For Noah Teller, precision is a passion, especially when he’s trying to learn how to make things grow. As Ecological and Restoration Coordinator at San Francisco’s Presidio, he’s testing a variety of fertilizers in a tiny...
Have you ever seen the hair cut at the beauty salon and thought “it’s a waste”?In the United States and Canada, 31.5 tons of hair are thrown away from beauty salons every day. Under these circumstances, “Matter of Trust Japan” was...
Volunteers cut donors’ hair during a campaign in Caracas, Venezuela, on Oct. 6. Hundreds of Venezuelans came to get their hair cut, some with their pets, to support an initiative that aims to use human and animal hair to help clean up Lake Maracaibo, which is...
