Human Hair Extension Innovative Recycling

The Human Hair Extension industry has accumulated a tremendous amount of waste since the early 2000’s. Eventually, adding to the 2 billion tons of solid waste created throughout the world every year. Currently, there is no system set up around the world that disposes human hair extensions in a humane way. The Human Hair Extension Recycling (HHER) Company, circular economy is set up to recycle hair extensions based on a sustainable and reusable design. With HHER Companies closed looped system of restoring, reusing and or composting hair extension, little to no byproducts would be sent to landfills within the United States and hopefully throughout other parts of the world. Our circular economy system will increase social awareness, preserve the natural resources that human hair processes while also relieving the world of another waste consume widely by society.   

The current market size for the human hair extension industry in the United States alone by the year 2023, is projected to reach 10 billion dollar based on Statista. Unfortunately, communities such as China and India are affected from eutrophication due to leachate formed from dumps of human hair waste piles trapped in drainage systems and water streams. Other practices such as burning or spreading the hair across the land of rural communities are other inhumane practices performed by counties that collect, distribute, process and consume hair on a daily basis. Markets in the industry are increasing steadily across the world but there is currently no proper system to help dispose of hair extension waste humanly. The human hair extension industry has already created backlash in society which directly contribute to climate change and harm future generations down the line. 

The human hair extension industry consumers are both men and women in the United States and other parts of the world. Even though only 30% of citizens in the United States consumes human hair extensions 100% of citizens are affected by the waste created from consumption. The inhumane disposal of hair extensions creates a huge amount of waste eventually left in streams, street curbs and landfills releasing pollution into the environment. Malaysia and other third world countries that participate hugely within the industry, continue to experience pollution through their waterways and air intake. HHER Companies solution creates a system that disposes of the hair properly by introducing a circular economy to restore, reuse and or compost hair transforming it back into society. To help create awareness on the issue at hand, HHER plans to capture the United States industry market, to eventually build enough connections to help third world countries control their human hair extensions waste. Creating the correct means of recycling hair extensions has to start with each and every individual that contribute to the product and also those that benefit from the product.  

The HHER Company plans to help solve the recycling crisis by reducing, reusing and composting the amount of waste created from the human hair extensions industry. In the hopes to lower waste, improve air quality and free water streams around the United States and other parts of the world. By creating a system that redirects the hair back into the economy to be reused or/than composted. Directly lowering emissions in the industry while creating profitable advantage for the economy.

The cradle to cradle is a huge part of HHER Companies solution. HHER Companies, designed framework allows for a shift in changing the impact of the product life-cycle waste and perceives it as input for another product cycle. This design allows HHER to implement all five principles of the cradle to cradle system within our circular economy:

• Material Health of Human Hair Extensions
• Material Re-utilization of Human Hair Extensions
• Finding the Renewable Energy by transferring Human Hair Extensions into Compost
• Understanding the Social Fairness of recycling human hair extensions from different communities.
• Water Stewardship

HHER Companies solutions to collect human hair extensions involve raising awareness through all social media outlets and physical contact, working directly with hair vendors, creating a small buy back system for used hair extensions, and generating efficient recycling drop off locations.

The HHER Company, goal is to help the entire hair industry understand that there is life after use. Through developing multiple end products produced from human hair extensions waste. By assuring that the waste is properly disposed or revamped with no direct or indirect harm to the environment.

Technology used to complete HHER Companies goal of capturing at least 10 percent of the industry in the United States, equating for a significant amount of product in three years. HHER plans to accomplish this mission by building our support system, social awareness and a successful circular economy system. The circular system involves rotating composting machinery, sewing machines, processing systems, water infrastructure, an aquaponic system, hair d-tangle and separation technology. 

Human Hair Extensions Recycling (HHER) Company is an innovative company that strives to help the world become more ego friendly by recycling human hair extensions in a sustainably fashion. We help the customer understand that there is life after use. At HHER we want to establish a relationship while educating women and men on the healthy effect that recycling human hair extension have on the entire world. Here at HHER we strive to empower the everyday customer and producers of human hair extensions to recycle.

Given the uniqueness of the company’s missions, the HHER Company is the first players in the market to recycle and create a system that focuses on lowering the amount of human hair extension waste in the country. Allowing, the HHER Company to think beyond the eye of the beholder. When given the option to have the opportunity to do the right thing, customers will understand that they can turn used hair into money, eventually thriving more in the economy.

Technology for HHER Company would involve:

• Computer software to scan the product through the recycling process(point-of-sale)
• Computers for work environment (CRM solution)
• Internet for Social Media
• Composting tumbler machines
• Aquaponics System  
• Hair sewing machines
• Vending machines
• Large cutting tools
• Collecting tools
• Bins for storage
• Transporting buckets for hair
• Scales for weighing hair

All technology is used throughout our circular economy to lower our outside inputs while recycling and developing end products. 

1. HHER Company is currently serving zero people. 
2. Within 1 year HHER Company plans to capture at least a portion of 10% of the hair industry.
3. Within five years HHER Company  plan to serve multiple countries reduce their waste from human hair extensions.  

HHER Company goals in the next five years:

• Create ore research and development towards composting and hair revival
• Implementing the circular economy stage by adding an aquaponics system which helps better the compost while also growing different plants to that give off oil to help restore hair.
•  Creating a sustainable process and receiving the hair to make sure that consumers do not have a hard time disposing of hair properly by establishing different drop off location in different states. 
• Reaching millions of customers within the industry
• Transform the hair industries into a more green friendly environment. 
• Helping countries around the world build specific systems tailored to their hair waste needs. 

Many will think that HHER Company is saying that women and men shouldn’t purchase hair extensions NO, this completely wrong. We just want to help provide a system to dispose of the hair properly.

Some milestones that HHER Company is experiencing in their start up phase: 

• Finding available funding to tackle a huge goal is a barrier that HHER Company is currently experiencing. 
• Finding a location due to funding 
• Creating a huge social impact 
• Finding the correct technology to collect and separate synthetic and human hair.
• Understanding how we can reprocess synthetic hair into a more usable product.   

HHER Company is planning to overcome these barriers by applying for as much funding that we qualify for. We want to also build our social media image by raising awareness on just how important this issue is. HHER Companies owner is currently using all her assets to forward HHER Companies research and development and missions to assure a reliable circular economy, hair collection process and product building system.     

The Human Hair Extension Recycling Company is currently a Sole Proprietorship and is currently not apart of a larger organization. 

Currently, HHER Company does not possess the right amount of funding to hire individuals so it is a one women's show.  

Torri’s Hampton CEO of HHER Company, an environmentalist and savvy consumer is on a mission to give the human hair extension industry a makeover. She has went through many financials measures and spent tones of income on hair extensions. Through this process she realized that there are not many ways to recycle human hair extension or receive a return on her investment. Torri noticed that there was a change that needed to be made for not just herself but for all women and men that experience the same problems as her. 

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