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.Hair mats help to retain soil moisture and reduce evaporation, while providing nutrients such as nitrogen and keratin, it says."I knew about hair mats for cleaning up an oil spill along the coas…READ FULL ARTICLE
