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What’s Happening in Belgium?

Human hair clippings are being used to help clean Belgium’s local water sources, thanks to a unique recycling program of the organization Dung Dung, called The Hair Recycle Project, in partnership with the nation’s hair salons. (Water stream photo credit: Pexels by Manuela Adler.)

(EP News) — Local human hair clippings are smartly recycled to help clean Belgian waterways! …. The Hair Recycle Project in Belgium has partnered with hair salons across the country to use human hair clippings to remove pollutants from water before it reaches local rivers and other sources. Human hair, which can absorb one million times its volume in various pollutants, is used to create matted sheets that serve as drain filters to remove the pollutants. The project, led by the Belgian non-governmental organization Dung Dung, also uses hair as organic garden fertilizer. 🙂