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Soda has found a reasonably green way to recycle hair clippings! Matter of Trust is an organization that specializes in programs that take natural surplus and use them to help the environment. One of their programs is collecting hair clippings from salons and barbers and making “hair mats” to clean up oil spills. |
“You shampoo your hair because it gets greasy. Hair is very efficient at collecting oil out of the air, off surfaces like your skin and out of the water, even petroleum oil. Hair is absorbant…” says Phil McCrory, inventor of the hair mats. Get this: after the mats have been used, oil and hair eating mushrooms are unleashed on the mats and the result — landscape grade compost. Now that’s green. |
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| Photos taken by Mona Miri and from the MofT website | ||
Open any magazine, those pesky magazine subscription cards flutter to the ground, only to be thrown away. Ugly Kitty, an online store at Etsy.com has found a brilliantly creative way to recycle this unavoidable magazine waste. Self-dubbed professional sweetheart and born again craftster, this ultra creative store owner realized the duality of a magazine subscription card. With all the right spots —Name, Address, Phone, etc.— this waste is turned into the cutest rolodex/address organizer you have ever seen. Now, as you can imagine, these take a while to make. Ugly Kitty is currently out of stock but collecting cards for her next |
batch. If you don’t want to wait, try it out for yourself! Get creative. Most importantly, use this idea to open your mind to the Reasonably Green way of thinking. Expand your recycling horizons. Recycling isn’t limited to not-so-pretty colorful tubs and sorting. Think about creative and craftsy ways to reuse the waste that you would sort and throw into those tubs. Have a more-than-reasonably green friend? Impress them with a cool recycled gift. Visit the Ugly Kitty Store. |
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