Jean baggies – the eco-conscious grocery delivery tool! Goals Bring down thick plastic bags waste for Instacart / ubereats Create community with looping and recycling systems Educate regarding recycling and reuse Objectives Create a folding, standing,...
India is one of the largest economies in the world today, fuelled by a wave of start-ups and entrepreneurship. However, many still believe that business is solely about making a profit. They often overlook the fact that entrepreneurship is a broad spectrum, including...
Have you ever looked at a fur ball that accumulated after giving your pet a nice brush and wondered, “Could this help reduce oil pollution?” Yeah, neither have we, but Lisa Gautier, founder and president of Matter of Trust, sure has. CONTINUE READING… ...
INSULATION CUBES 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...
2024 Hearst National Multimedia Championship – First Prize Matter of Trust, founded by Lisa Gautier, is a nonprofit focused on environmental sustainability by linking surplus materials with needs. Their Hair Matters program collects hair, fur, and wool fibers to...
SANTIAGO, June 4 (Reuters) – Luisana Gil, a dog groomer in Santiago, Chile, has a lot of hair on her hands – she throws away bags and bags of her clients’ hair, which until recently went straight to the landfill. Now Gil is connecting her discarded...
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...
