[VIDEO] – Dogs and cats: their hair is a goldmine!

he hair of our 22 million pets could be a goldmine for manufacturers.
A young company is convinced of this, and its initial experiments are astonishing.
Watch this report from TF1’s 20H programme.

France has 22 million dogs and cats, but how much hair do they leave behind? Between 6,000 and 7,000 tonnes a year, according to a very young company, Brosseur, which has decided to take up the challenge of recycling it. The first step is to collect them. Nathalie, a groomer, collects them by the handful. Normally, this hair ends up in the bin. “I used to throw away about 60 kg a month,” she says in the TF1 report above. But recently, she’s been putting them aside.

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