KCBS – How you can use your hair (or your dog’s) as natural fertilizer

The hair of the dog isn’t just for hangovers– it can help your garden and ease pollution too!  One Bay Area ecology group is employing hair from people and pets to use in the garden via compost and in the ocean to clean up pollution, using hair’s...

LA TIMES – Use your hair to help your garden or fight pollution. A Bay Area group shows how

Try answering this off the top of your head: What’s an abundant renewable resource that can spur growth in your garden and clear pollutants from bodies of water? The answer, according to a Bay Area nonprofit, is hair. CONTINUE READING…   LA TIMES –...

SF GATE – Big mats of human hair are saving 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 and bodies of water. But, more recently, they have expanded to a new project: using hair...

WASHINGTON POST – Dutch start-up Human Material Loop turns hair into sustainable clothing

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...

KUAF – Clipping for a cause: Hairstream donates discarded hair to clean waterways

Aaron Elam runs a unique hair salon. For one, he operates it out of a converted airstream trailer. Hence its apt name: Hairstream. It’s located right off the Greenway in South Fayetteville. Elam said the uncommon nature of his salon draws many walk-up customers....

Instagram – Sam Bentley – Using HAIR to Fight Oil Spills

  CONTINUE READING…   Instagram – Sam Bentley – Using HAIR to Fight Oil Spills! February 4th, 2024 https://www.instagram.com/reel/C27u5Hbokcx/?igsh=OTU1ODAwZWUxYg==...