Hair Filters against oil polution
Restia Project
Our goal is realized with the implementation and use of the ecological filter Restia, which is created by recycling hair clippings.
"Restia": the silent wave of success
How can a shipwreck become the springboard for success? And yet: when the "Agia Zoni" sank two years ago, Dimitrios Girtzalis was shocked.
Her Ioannas Sotirhou, The Journal of the Authors
He definitely wanted to do something to help clean up the sea. Anxiety he shared with his girlfriend Chryssa Krikonis, who as a translator had a greater ease of searching on the computer.
The hairdresser himself knew that hair has the ability to absorb three to nine times its weight in oils. But they learned that it can hold petroleum, grease, oil. And finally they found the solution: a filter from hair clippings that helps clean the sea.
As incredible as it sounds, not only does it work, it has been around for years in America.
So they set out to make the natural filter here as well in order to protect their country, which is bathed by the sea from everywhere. Together with three other people close to them, they created a Social Cooperative Enterprise that has not yet dated and named it, like the filter, "Restia".
What does this word mean; "It is the silent wave that is not due to an obvious cause, but to a wind that blew in a previous time or in another area and inflates the sea while the waters are calm. We chose it because it symbolizes exactly this change we want to bring with the product we produce, the message of recycling, proving that something that is in abundance and ends up in the trash, when recycled can create something very beneficial for the environment and humans. " Chryssa Krikoni, vice-president of COINSEP, tells us, and explains exactly what the Restia filter is:
"It is a filter made exclusively of human or animal hair and has the ability to absorb and retain any oil that falls on it. Dimitrios, who is a hairdresser, thought about it, on the occasion of the shipwreck, we searched for it and found that this action has been done in America for 19 years by the charity Matter of Trust in San Francisco.
They receive donations from hairdressers, pet groomers and livestock units for their hair, their hair to be thrown away, and they make these filters in their factory. We contacted them 1.5 years ago and they gave us their lights ".
The charity not only provided them with know-how from harvesting hair clippers to making filters, but also offered them the first felting machine, "a machine of nonwovens used in the past to weave felt coats." That's how they started.
"Restia": the silent wave of success
How can a shipwreck become the springboard for success? And yet: when the "Agia Zoni" sank two years ago, Dimitrios Girtzalis was shocked.
Her Ioannas Sotirhou, The Journal of the Authors
He definitely wanted to do something to help clean up the sea. Anxiety he shared with his girlfriend Chryssa Krikonis, who as a translator had a greater ease of searching on the computer.
The hairdresser himself knew that hair has the ability to absorb three to nine times its weight in oils. But they learned that it can hold petroleum, grease, oil. And finally they found the solution: a filter from hair clippings that helps clean the sea.
As incredible as it sounds, not only does it work, it has been around for years in America.
So they set out to make the natural filter here as well in order to protect their country, which is bathed by the sea from everywhere. Together with three other people close to them, they created a Social Cooperative Enterprise that has not yet dated and named it, like the filter, "Restia".
What does this word mean; "It is the silent wave that is not due to an obvious cause, but to a wind that blew in a previous time or in another area and inflates the sea while the waters are calm. We chose it because it symbolizes exactly this change we want to bring with the product we produce, the message of recycling, proving that something that is in abundance and ends up in the trash, when recycled can create something very beneficial for the environment and humans. " Chryssa Krikoni, vice-president of COINSEP, tells us, and explains exactly what the Restia filter is:
"It is a filter made exclusively of human or animal hair and has the ability to absorb and retain any oil that falls on it. Dimitrios, who is a hairdresser, thought about it, on the occasion of the shipwreck, we searched for it and found that this action has been done in America for 19 years by the charity Matter of Trust in San Francisco.
They receive donations from hairdressers, pet groomers and livestock units for their hair, their hair to be thrown away, and they make these filters in their factory. We contacted them 1.5 years ago and they gave us their lights ".
The charity not only provided them with know-how from harvesting hair clippers to making filters, but also offered them the first felting machine, "a machine of nonwovens used in the past to weave felt coats." That's how they started.
"Restia": the silent wave of success
How can a shipwreck become the springboard for success? And yet: when the "Agia Zoni" sank two years ago, Dimitrios Girtzalis was shocked.
Her Ioannas Sotirhou, The Journal of the Authors
He definitely wanted to do something to help clean up the sea. Anxiety he shared with his girlfriend Chryssa Krikonis, who as a translator had a greater ease of searching on the computer.
The hairdresser himself knew that hair has the ability to absorb three to nine times its weight in oils. But they learned that it can hold petroleum, grease, oil. And finally they found the solution: a filter from hair clippings that helps clean the sea.
As incredible as it sounds, not only does it work, it has been around for years in America.
So they set out to make the natural filter here as well in order to protect their country, which is bathed by the sea from everywhere. Together with three other people close to them, they created a Social Cooperative Enterprise that has not yet dated and named it, like the filter, "Restia".
What does this word mean; "It is the silent wave that is not due to an obvious cause, but to a wind that blew in a previous time or in another area and inflates the sea while the waters are calm. We chose it because it symbolizes exactly this change we want to bring with the product we produce, the message of recycling, proving that something that is in abundance and ends up in the trash, when recycled can create something very beneficial for the environment and humans. " Chryssa Krikoni, vice-president of COINSEP, tells us, and explains exactly what the Restia filter is:
"It is a filter made exclusively of human or animal hair and has the ability to absorb and retain any oil that falls on it. Dimitrios, who is a hairdresser, thought about it, on the occasion of the shipwreck, we searched for it and found that this action has been done in America for 19 years by the charity Matter of Trust in San Francisco.
They receive donations from hairdressers, pet groomers and livestock units for their hair, their hair to be thrown away, and they make these filters in their factory. We contacted them 1.5 years ago and they gave us their lights ".
The charity not only provided them with know-how from harvesting hair clippers to making filters, but also offered them the first felting machine, "a machine of nonwovens used in the past to weave felt coats." That's how they started.
"Restia": the silent wave of success
How can a shipwreck become the springboard for success? And yet: when the "Agia Zoni" sank two years ago, Dimitrios Girtzalis was shocked.
Her Ioannas Sotirhou, The Journal of the Authors
He definitely wanted to do something to help clean up the sea. Anxiety he shared with his girlfriend Chryssa Krikonis, who as a translator had a greater ease of searching on the computer.
The hairdresser himself knew that hair has the ability to absorb three to nine times its weight in oils. But they learned that it can hold petroleum, grease, oil. And finally they found the solution: a filter from hair clippings that helps clean the sea.
As incredible as it sounds, not only does it work, it has been around for years in America.
So they set out to make the natural filter here as well in order to protect their country, which is bathed by the sea from everywhere. Together with three other people close to them, they created a Social Cooperative Enterprise that has not yet dated and named it, like the filter, "Restia".
What does this word mean; "It is the silent wave that is not due to an obvious cause, but to a wind that blew in a previous time or in another area and inflates the sea while the waters are calm. We chose it because it symbolizes exactly this change we want to bring with the product we produce, the message of recycling, proving that something that is in abundance and ends up in the trash, when recycled can create something very beneficial for the environment and humans. " Chryssa Krikoni, vice-president of COINSEP, tells us, and explains exactly what the Restia filter is:
"It is a filter made exclusively of human or animal hair and has the ability to absorb and retain any oil that falls on it. Dimitrios, who is a hairdresser, thought about it, on the occasion of the shipwreck, we searched for it and found that this action has been done in America for 19 years by the charity Matter of Trust in San Francisco.
They receive donations from hairdressers, pet groomers and livestock units for their hair, their hair to be thrown away, and they make these filters in their factory. We contacted them 1.5 years ago and they gave us their lights ".
The charity not only provided them with know-how from harvesting hair clippers to making filters, but also offered them the first felting machine, "a machine of nonwovens used in the past to weave felt coats." That's how they started.