{"id":114212,"date":"2023-05-12T07:58:18","date_gmt":"2023-05-12T04:58:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/human-hair-could-be-the-ultimate-recycled-material-as-soil-conditioner-to-clean-up-oil-spills\/"},"modified":"2023-05-12T07:58:18","modified_gmt":"2023-05-12T04:58:18","slug":"human-hair-could-be-the-ultimate-recycled-material-as-soil-conditioner-to-clean-up-oil-spills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/human-hair-could-be-the-ultimate-recycled-material-as-soil-conditioner-to-clean-up-oil-spills\/","title":{"rendered":"Human hair could be the ultimate recycled material as soil conditioner, to clean-up oil spills"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114212\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Scientific studies have shown human hair mixed with compost is a good fertiliser for plants. An American Society for Horticultural Science study showed human hair, when combined with additional compost material, was an additional nutrient source for crops. The University of Northampton also studied human hair and found that enzymatic or microbial degradation of hair made it favourable to add to compost, with the hair adding protein, carbon, and nitrogen.<\/p>\n<p>Sustainable Salons collects hair waste from beauty salons across Australia and New Zealand to prevent it from going to landfill and gives it to businesses like Ms Yong&#8217;s. It also collects other waste hair salon products. &#8220;We turn shampoo bottles into sunglasses and coasters and combs,&#8221; said cofounder Paul Frasca. It&#8217;s estimated the business collects 20 per cent of all hair cut in Australian salons. Even so, the social enterprise estimates about 400,000 kilograms of hair gets cut off and sent to landfill in Australia each year.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Frasca said hair was one of the hardest things to repurpose \u2014 in the beginning. &#8220;With human hair, we actually have had to study it first to understand what it is,&#8221; he said. The Elizabeth Street Compost Club has diverted more than 300 kilograms of food waste from landfill, and created great neighbours along the way. The company has since been helping to make booms that use human hair to clean up oil spills. &#8220;When we studied hair, we realised that hair is really good at absorbing oil,&#8221; Mr Frasca said. Using repurposed hair in soil conditioners is a game changer for the environment, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2023-05-11\/hair-good-for-soil-conditioner-oil-spill-clean-ups\/102322962\">ABC<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/3-361\/\">Human hair could be the ultimate recycled material as soil conditioner, to clean-up oil spills<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[9951,575,9952,446],"class_list":["post-114212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-conditioner","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-human-hair","tag-soil"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114212\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}