TOKYO – The Japanese branch of a U.S. environmental organization has launched a pilot project to recycle hair discarded by salons into soil covers for sustainable farming.
Matter of Trust Japan, the Tokyo office of the San Francisco-based organization, began a five-month trial in July, making 30 mats out of human hair for a soybean field with an area of 20 square meters in Yamanashi Prefecture, west of Tokyo.
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Aug 2025