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The Age
4 days ago
- Health
- The Age
The toxic blooms hiding in many of our homes – and a new way to find them
'The resolution of human eyesight is about 80 micrometers, and most of the time, the aerosols of concern are much smaller,' said UTS Associate Professor Nicholas Surawski, the project's lead. 'Indoor mould is exactly that; you can see the mould patterns on a wall, but you can't visualise the individual spores that are causing harm.' Mould testers currently use sticky strips to trap spores and count them manually under the microscope. They also grow captured spores on agar plates to identify which species are present. Those methods, however, are time-intensive, can miss hidden moulds and have error rates between 30 and 200 per cent, partly because they only capture small windows of time while spore concentrations can vary by a 10,000-fold difference over a single day. The BioScout device automates spore-sampling in the air around crops by taking a snapshot through a microscope and harnessing AI to analyse whether mildew, rust, or diseases such as grape-rotting botrytis are present. 'It could maybe take an expert 20 minutes to analyse one image,' said Dr Michelle Demers, head of science at BioScout. 'We can essentially train AI to replicate the behaviour of an expert, except that it can do 100,000 images in a quarter of a second. 'The beauty of it is we can not only tell you what you have, but we can tell you how much of it you have.' The effort to repurpose the device into an indoor monitoring tool is backed by a grant from the NSW Chief Scientist's office through the NSW Smart Sensing Network's Grand Challenge Fund. 'It could really help with our understanding of exposure limits. It's a very complex area to monitor and evaluate,' said Western Sydney University occupational hygienist Dr Margaret Davidson, another researcher on the project. 'The concealed mould is particularly nasty and hard to identify because if you can't see it, and people are getting sick, they might be blaming other things.' Former Sydney renter Emmeline, a nurse who did not want her last name used, said she was sick with flu-like symptoms for a year from hidden mould at a Meadowbank apartment. She moved into a West Ryde flat with her now-husband who then also became sick for months with vertigo and cyclical vomiting. Doctors said it was probably linked to mould growing up through their floorboards. As soon as they moved out, symptoms lifted. Loading The World Health Organisation estimates 10 to 50 per cent of Australian homes have mould. Dr Heike Neumeister-Kemp, an international expert in the field, said mould was almost always hidden, usually within wet walls or damp crawl spaces. She warned in a 2023 paper that mould poses a danger to those returning to homes after floods. The victims recovering from the northern NSW flood disasters are on her mind. People often particularly fear black mould, but fragments and spores of any mould can trigger health issues, and some secrete toxins as well, Neumeister-Kemp said.
Sydney Morning Herald
4 days ago
- Health
- Sydney Morning Herald
The toxic blooms hiding in many of our homes – and a new way to find them
'The resolution of human eyesight is about 80 micrometers, and most of the time, the aerosols of concern are much smaller,' said UTS Associate Professor Nicholas Surawski, the project's lead. 'Indoor mould is exactly that; you can see the mould patterns on a wall, but you can't visualise the individual spores that are causing harm.' Mould testers currently use sticky strips to trap spores and count them manually under the microscope. They also grow captured spores on agar plates to identify which species are present. Those methods, however, are time-intensive, can miss hidden moulds and have error rates between 30 and 200 per cent, partly because they only capture small windows of time while spore concentrations can vary by a 10,000-fold difference over a single day. The BioScout device automates spore-sampling in the air around crops by taking a snapshot through a microscope and harnessing AI to analyse whether mildew, rust, or diseases such as grape-rotting botrytis are present. 'It could maybe take an expert 20 minutes to analyse one image,' said Dr Michelle Demers, head of science at BioScout. 'We can essentially train AI to replicate the behaviour of an expert, except that it can do 100,000 images in a quarter of a second. 'The beauty of it is we can not only tell you what you have, but we can tell you how much of it you have.' The effort to repurpose the device into an indoor monitoring tool is backed by a grant from the NSW Chief Scientist's office through the NSW Smart Sensing Network's Grand Challenge Fund. 'It could really help with our understanding of exposure limits. It's a very complex area to monitor and evaluate,' said Western Sydney University occupational hygienist Dr Margaret Davidson, another researcher on the project. 'The concealed mould is particularly nasty and hard to identify because if you can't see it, and people are getting sick, they might be blaming other things.' Former Sydney renter Emmeline, a nurse who did not want her last name used, said she was sick with flu-like symptoms for a year from hidden mould at a Meadowbank apartment. She moved into a West Ryde flat with her now-husband who then also became sick for months with vertigo and cyclical vomiting. Doctors said it was probably linked to mould growing up through their floorboards. As soon as they moved out, symptoms lifted. Loading The World Health Organisation estimates 10 to 50 per cent of Australian homes have mould. Dr Heike Neumeister-Kemp, an international expert in the field, said mould was almost always hidden, usually within wet walls or damp crawl spaces. She warned in a 2023 paper that mould poses a danger to those returning to homes after floods. The victims recovering from the northern NSW flood disasters are on her mind. People often particularly fear black mould, but fragments and spores of any mould can trigger health issues, and some secrete toxins as well, Neumeister-Kemp said.
New Indian Express
5 days ago
- Health
- New Indian Express
Centre asks states to run special drives enforcing anti-smoking rules
NEW DELHI: The Centre has directed all states to undertake special drives to enforce rules banning smoking in public places, prohibiting the advertisement of tobacco products and prohibiting the sale of tobacco products without statutory pictorial warnings to observe World No Tobacco Day on May 31. In a letter to all the states/UTS, the Health Ministry said the states should prepare and launch an action plan for implementing the revised guidelines for Tobacco-Free Educational Institutions (ToFEI, 2019) at all state-level events, 'aiming that all the educational institutions implement the guidelines strictly and be certified as tobacco-free.' The states were also asked to undertake other activities for the WNTD campaign, including carrying out print media coverage, pamphlets in schools, wall paintings, hoardings, awareness drive through celebrities, public announcements, social media campaign, television, radio jingles, street plays, among others for creating awareness about the harmful effects of tobacco use. The ministry asked the states to share an action taken report within 10 days after WNTD 2025. 'In previous years, states/UTS have actively observed World No Tobacco Day by carrying out campaigns, organizing various activities and enforcing the Provisions of the COTPA, 2003 and PECA, 2019. The successful and strong participation on this day would bring visibility to the National Tobacco Control Program's efforts in reducing tobacco and nicotine use in India,' said V. Hekali Zhimomi, Additional Secretary in the Union Health Ministry.
The Hindu
6 days ago
- The Hindu
CDTPA plea to Railways on issuance of quick ticket booking
The Cauvery Delta Train Passengers Association (CDTPA) has exhorted the Southern Railway to ensure quick current ticket issuance to the travellers during peak hours at the railway stations. Highlighting the plight of current ticket booking passengers, the Association secretary V. Jeevakumar said that the ticket booking counter staff insist for current ticket booking through online payment methods during both peak and lean hours of traffic. However, in districts like Thanjavur and other delta districts, commuters hail from rural areas and have yet to grasp the skill to operate the mobile applications quickly. Hence, on several occasions they were unable to catch the trains. At the same time, the delay to complete the process during morning and evening peak hours has a cascading effect on the passengers standing in the line who were aware of operating such mobile applications, he claimed. Such being the case, the Association called upon the Southern Railway to increase or earmark booking counters exclusively for cash booking during peak hours for the benefit of non-mobile application technology savvy commuters. He also exhorted the Indian Railways, through the Southern Railway, to weed out the problems faced by the uses of the mobile application - Unreserved Ticketing System (UTS) – in booking tickets at the eleventh hour, particularly those undertaking short distance travels. At present, a mobile UTS user could not book unreserved ticket if he or she was 'in the vicinity' of the railway track which means the user was barred from using the application while in the station premises or even at a distance of 100 metres away from the railway track. If the railway authorities claim that such restriction was imposed to avoid ticket-less travelling by the commuter until he reaches his or her destination, the apprehension of the railways that a commuter might cheat the organisation could very well be surmounted with the help of real-time technology to assess the exact location of the passenger, whether the person was moving on the track, at the time of attempting to book a ticket and comparing the time of booking with the schedule of trains available with the railways. By including this verification process in the mobile application, the 'ticket-less travellers' could be discourage to embark on such travels, he added.
The Advertiser
26-05-2025
- General
- The Advertiser
Recycled hair? What happens to your off-cuts after a visit to the hairdresser
What happens to the hair the hairdresser cuts off your head? And why would it end up in any other place but the bin? Over the past 10 years, Sustainable Salons has collected more than 100,000kg of human and pet hair from salons across Australia and New Zealand to create sustainable products. "Hair hasn't always been a waste material," Sustainable Salons founder Paul Frasca said. "For example, some of the things we found in history books were that hair is really good in soil, but there was no data. It also says that hair is really good to put in building materials. And like, great, but there's no data, because these things were done 500 years ago." While many are familiar with people donating their ponytails for the creation of wigs - and Sustainable Salons has had more than 285,000 donated for just that - there are other options regular hair cuts can be used for. It all started with hair booms - large hair sausages, made out of the collected clippings encased in nylon - that are deployed to soak up oil spills in the ocean, or deployed in waterways to clean up oil for local councils. "We read a story about how hair was used to clean up an oil spill in America about 30 years ago. We're like, that's interesting, but we contacted them and they had no data, so we had to ask, 'Does it actually work?," Mr Frasca said. "So we started collecting amounts of hair, and we contacted UTS in Sydney, and we said, 'There is this idea about cleaning up oil spills, and we just want to investigate it a bit more.' And we had a student, Rebecca, who then took on the subject, and we started studying it. And funnily enough, it turned out hair is a great absorber of oil, so that's how it all started." From there, Sustainable Salons entered the world of gardening, where hair was also used to create a soil treatment called Soilz Alive. When hair breaks down, it delivers an organic and dynamic dose of keratin, which conditions and renews the soil. Sustainable Salons is also about to enter the construction industry, producing hair-based bricks, and also releasing a world-first technology. "We found out - and this took about four years of [research and development] is how to turn hair into graphite," Mr Frasca said. "Graphite can be a part of the conductor system for OLED displays, solar panels and batteries. "It's fantastic research that we did, and we're actually looking at doing the first product next year, maybe a battery or something that charges your phone." Hair is just one thing Sustainable Salons collects. The hairdressers and pet groomers that sign up for the program get six different recycling bins to collect plastics, metals such as aluminium foil and colour tubes, excess chemicals and old hair equipment such as hairdryers. Without this program, about 90 per cent of items used within hairdressers would not be recycled, as it is considered chemically contaminated. For all of these collection programs, it's not just a matter of disposing of them correctly, it's about creating circularity. So in the case of the excess chemicals, primarily hydrogen peroxide, it's processed to be turned into water and oxygen. And the old equipment is broken down into pieces, the e-waste is recycled, and the plastic parts, which are heat-resistant, are turned into things such as combs. "The plastics actually get complicated because they're heat resistant and they usually have layers on them, so they're not easy, and we've got to find different brokers for them," Mr Frasca said. "How it works in the recycling world, the way I best put it is, we're above ground miners and commodities change daily. So plastic could have a value to it, and the next day it's actually a cost. So you're trying to constantly balance out when is the right time to actually sell your materials." There are more than 1500 salon businesses part of the Sustainable Salons across Australia, including 36 in the Canberra region, which have helped divert more than 244,000kg of materials to landfill. One such company is Pura Holistic Hair, which has salons in Narrabundah and Gold Creek. Having worked previously in salons that had been part of the Sustainable Salon program, Pura Holistic Hair owner Blair Lewis knew that she wanted to implement it in her own hairdresser when she opened a few years ago. "Hairdressing has a huge carbon footprint and huge toxic load, as you can imagine," Ms Lewis said. "So from the chemicals from different services, whether it be colour, perming, straightening, sprays, all of those things, plus the things they're packaged in, and then the foils that we use on the hair. There are so many different things. "If you think about how much stuff we use in a space, and beyond, when clients are taking products home, we have the option to either make a huge impact, positively on the environment or not." But for Ms Lewis, Sustainable Salons is just the beginning. All of the products they use and sell are sourced from biodynamic farms, sold in amber glass bottles with aluminium lids that have been recycled from other products. They also have a worm farm on site where they compost their tea leaves that are offered to clients to take home, using any empty glass bottles leftover from the hair products used. "If we can think about it beyond, 'We can put it in these bins,' that's awesome," Ms Lewis said. "Sustainable Salons do amazing things, but also, how can we reduce going in there in the first place? So I think because we do have the ability to make a real positive change in the environment, I think it's actually super important." What happens to the hair the hairdresser cuts off your head? And why would it end up in any other place but the bin? Over the past 10 years, Sustainable Salons has collected more than 100,000kg of human and pet hair from salons across Australia and New Zealand to create sustainable products. "Hair hasn't always been a waste material," Sustainable Salons founder Paul Frasca said. "For example, some of the things we found in history books were that hair is really good in soil, but there was no data. It also says that hair is really good to put in building materials. And like, great, but there's no data, because these things were done 500 years ago." While many are familiar with people donating their ponytails for the creation of wigs - and Sustainable Salons has had more than 285,000 donated for just that - there are other options regular hair cuts can be used for. It all started with hair booms - large hair sausages, made out of the collected clippings encased in nylon - that are deployed to soak up oil spills in the ocean, or deployed in waterways to clean up oil for local councils. "We read a story about how hair was used to clean up an oil spill in America about 30 years ago. We're like, that's interesting, but we contacted them and they had no data, so we had to ask, 'Does it actually work?," Mr Frasca said. "So we started collecting amounts of hair, and we contacted UTS in Sydney, and we said, 'There is this idea about cleaning up oil spills, and we just want to investigate it a bit more.' And we had a student, Rebecca, who then took on the subject, and we started studying it. And funnily enough, it turned out hair is a great absorber of oil, so that's how it all started." From there, Sustainable Salons entered the world of gardening, where hair was also used to create a soil treatment called Soilz Alive. When hair breaks down, it delivers an organic and dynamic dose of keratin, which conditions and renews the soil. Sustainable Salons is also about to enter the construction industry, producing hair-based bricks, and also releasing a world-first technology. "We found out - and this took about four years of [research and development] is how to turn hair into graphite," Mr Frasca said. "Graphite can be a part of the conductor system for OLED displays, solar panels and batteries. "It's fantastic research that we did, and we're actually looking at doing the first product next year, maybe a battery or something that charges your phone." Hair is just one thing Sustainable Salons collects. The hairdressers and pet groomers that sign up for the program get six different recycling bins to collect plastics, metals such as aluminium foil and colour tubes, excess chemicals and old hair equipment such as hairdryers. Without this program, about 90 per cent of items used within hairdressers would not be recycled, as it is considered chemically contaminated. For all of these collection programs, it's not just a matter of disposing of them correctly, it's about creating circularity. So in the case of the excess chemicals, primarily hydrogen peroxide, it's processed to be turned into water and oxygen. And the old equipment is broken down into pieces, the e-waste is recycled, and the plastic parts, which are heat-resistant, are turned into things such as combs. "The plastics actually get complicated because they're heat resistant and they usually have layers on them, so they're not easy, and we've got to find different brokers for them," Mr Frasca said. "How it works in the recycling world, the way I best put it is, we're above ground miners and commodities change daily. So plastic could have a value to it, and the next day it's actually a cost. So you're trying to constantly balance out when is the right time to actually sell your materials." There are more than 1500 salon businesses part of the Sustainable Salons across Australia, including 36 in the Canberra region, which have helped divert more than 244,000kg of materials to landfill. One such company is Pura Holistic Hair, which has salons in Narrabundah and Gold Creek. Having worked previously in salons that had been part of the Sustainable Salon program, Pura Holistic Hair owner Blair Lewis knew that she wanted to implement it in her own hairdresser when she opened a few years ago. "Hairdressing has a huge carbon footprint and huge toxic load, as you can imagine," Ms Lewis said. "So from the chemicals from different services, whether it be colour, perming, straightening, sprays, all of those things, plus the things they're packaged in, and then the foils that we use on the hair. There are so many different things. "If you think about how much stuff we use in a space, and beyond, when clients are taking products home, we have the option to either make a huge impact, positively on the environment or not." But for Ms Lewis, Sustainable Salons is just the beginning. All of the products they use and sell are sourced from biodynamic farms, sold in amber glass bottles with aluminium lids that have been recycled from other products. They also have a worm farm on site where they compost their tea leaves that are offered to clients to take home, using any empty glass bottles leftover from the hair products used. "If we can think about it beyond, 'We can put it in these bins,' that's awesome," Ms Lewis said. "Sustainable Salons do amazing things, but also, how can we reduce going in there in the first place? So I think because we do have the ability to make a real positive change in the environment, I think it's actually super important." What happens to the hair the hairdresser cuts off your head? And why would it end up in any other place but the bin? Over the past 10 years, Sustainable Salons has collected more than 100,000kg of human and pet hair from salons across Australia and New Zealand to create sustainable products. "Hair hasn't always been a waste material," Sustainable Salons founder Paul Frasca said. "For example, some of the things we found in history books were that hair is really good in soil, but there was no data. It also says that hair is really good to put in building materials. And like, great, but there's no data, because these things were done 500 years ago." While many are familiar with people donating their ponytails for the creation of wigs - and Sustainable Salons has had more than 285,000 donated for just that - there are other options regular hair cuts can be used for. It all started with hair booms - large hair sausages, made out of the collected clippings encased in nylon - that are deployed to soak up oil spills in the ocean, or deployed in waterways to clean up oil for local councils. "We read a story about how hair was used to clean up an oil spill in America about 30 years ago. We're like, that's interesting, but we contacted them and they had no data, so we had to ask, 'Does it actually work?," Mr Frasca said. "So we started collecting amounts of hair, and we contacted UTS in Sydney, and we said, 'There is this idea about cleaning up oil spills, and we just want to investigate it a bit more.' And we had a student, Rebecca, who then took on the subject, and we started studying it. And funnily enough, it turned out hair is a great absorber of oil, so that's how it all started." From there, Sustainable Salons entered the world of gardening, where hair was also used to create a soil treatment called Soilz Alive. When hair breaks down, it delivers an organic and dynamic dose of keratin, which conditions and renews the soil. Sustainable Salons is also about to enter the construction industry, producing hair-based bricks, and also releasing a world-first technology. "We found out - and this took about four years of [research and development] is how to turn hair into graphite," Mr Frasca said. "Graphite can be a part of the conductor system for OLED displays, solar panels and batteries. "It's fantastic research that we did, and we're actually looking at doing the first product next year, maybe a battery or something that charges your phone." Hair is just one thing Sustainable Salons collects. The hairdressers and pet groomers that sign up for the program get six different recycling bins to collect plastics, metals such as aluminium foil and colour tubes, excess chemicals and old hair equipment such as hairdryers. Without this program, about 90 per cent of items used within hairdressers would not be recycled, as it is considered chemically contaminated. For all of these collection programs, it's not just a matter of disposing of them correctly, it's about creating circularity. So in the case of the excess chemicals, primarily hydrogen peroxide, it's processed to be turned into water and oxygen. And the old equipment is broken down into pieces, the e-waste is recycled, and the plastic parts, which are heat-resistant, are turned into things such as combs. "The plastics actually get complicated because they're heat resistant and they usually have layers on them, so they're not easy, and we've got to find different brokers for them," Mr Frasca said. "How it works in the recycling world, the way I best put it is, we're above ground miners and commodities change daily. So plastic could have a value to it, and the next day it's actually a cost. So you're trying to constantly balance out when is the right time to actually sell your materials." There are more than 1500 salon businesses part of the Sustainable Salons across Australia, including 36 in the Canberra region, which have helped divert more than 244,000kg of materials to landfill. One such company is Pura Holistic Hair, which has salons in Narrabundah and Gold Creek. Having worked previously in salons that had been part of the Sustainable Salon program, Pura Holistic Hair owner Blair Lewis knew that she wanted to implement it in her own hairdresser when she opened a few years ago. "Hairdressing has a huge carbon footprint and huge toxic load, as you can imagine," Ms Lewis said. "So from the chemicals from different services, whether it be colour, perming, straightening, sprays, all of those things, plus the things they're packaged in, and then the foils that we use on the hair. There are so many different things. "If you think about how much stuff we use in a space, and beyond, when clients are taking products home, we have the option to either make a huge impact, positively on the environment or not." But for Ms Lewis, Sustainable Salons is just the beginning. All of the products they use and sell are sourced from biodynamic farms, sold in amber glass bottles with aluminium lids that have been recycled from other products. They also have a worm farm on site where they compost their tea leaves that are offered to clients to take home, using any empty glass bottles leftover from the hair products used. "If we can think about it beyond, 'We can put it in these bins,' that's awesome," Ms Lewis said. "Sustainable Salons do amazing things, but also, how can we reduce going in there in the first place? So I think because we do have the ability to make a real positive change in the environment, I think it's actually super important." What happens to the hair the hairdresser cuts off your head? And why would it end up in any other place but the bin? Over the past 10 years, Sustainable Salons has collected more than 100,000kg of human and pet hair from salons across Australia and New Zealand to create sustainable products. "Hair hasn't always been a waste material," Sustainable Salons founder Paul Frasca said. "For example, some of the things we found in history books were that hair is really good in soil, but there was no data. It also says that hair is really good to put in building materials. And like, great, but there's no data, because these things were done 500 years ago." While many are familiar with people donating their ponytails for the creation of wigs - and Sustainable Salons has had more than 285,000 donated for just that - there are other options regular hair cuts can be used for. It all started with hair booms - large hair sausages, made out of the collected clippings encased in nylon - that are deployed to soak up oil spills in the ocean, or deployed in waterways to clean up oil for local councils. "We read a story about how hair was used to clean up an oil spill in America about 30 years ago. We're like, that's interesting, but we contacted them and they had no data, so we had to ask, 'Does it actually work?," Mr Frasca said. "So we started collecting amounts of hair, and we contacted UTS in Sydney, and we said, 'There is this idea about cleaning up oil spills, and we just want to investigate it a bit more.' And we had a student, Rebecca, who then took on the subject, and we started studying it. And funnily enough, it turned out hair is a great absorber of oil, so that's how it all started." From there, Sustainable Salons entered the world of gardening, where hair was also used to create a soil treatment called Soilz Alive. When hair breaks down, it delivers an organic and dynamic dose of keratin, which conditions and renews the soil. Sustainable Salons is also about to enter the construction industry, producing hair-based bricks, and also releasing a world-first technology. "We found out - and this took about four years of [research and development] is how to turn hair into graphite," Mr Frasca said. "Graphite can be a part of the conductor system for OLED displays, solar panels and batteries. "It's fantastic research that we did, and we're actually looking at doing the first product next year, maybe a battery or something that charges your phone." Hair is just one thing Sustainable Salons collects. The hairdressers and pet groomers that sign up for the program get six different recycling bins to collect plastics, metals such as aluminium foil and colour tubes, excess chemicals and old hair equipment such as hairdryers. Without this program, about 90 per cent of items used within hairdressers would not be recycled, as it is considered chemically contaminated. For all of these collection programs, it's not just a matter of disposing of them correctly, it's about creating circularity. So in the case of the excess chemicals, primarily hydrogen peroxide, it's processed to be turned into water and oxygen. And the old equipment is broken down into pieces, the e-waste is recycled, and the plastic parts, which are heat-resistant, are turned into things such as combs. "The plastics actually get complicated because they're heat resistant and they usually have layers on them, so they're not easy, and we've got to find different brokers for them," Mr Frasca said. "How it works in the recycling world, the way I best put it is, we're above ground miners and commodities change daily. So plastic could have a value to it, and the next day it's actually a cost. So you're trying to constantly balance out when is the right time to actually sell your materials." There are more than 1500 salon businesses part of the Sustainable Salons across Australia, including 36 in the Canberra region, which have helped divert more than 244,000kg of materials to landfill. One such company is Pura Holistic Hair, which has salons in Narrabundah and Gold Creek. Having worked previously in salons that had been part of the Sustainable Salon program, Pura Holistic Hair owner Blair Lewis knew that she wanted to implement it in her own hairdresser when she opened a few years ago. "Hairdressing has a huge carbon footprint and huge toxic load, as you can imagine," Ms Lewis said. "So from the chemicals from different services, whether it be colour, perming, straightening, sprays, all of those things, plus the things they're packaged in, and then the foils that we use on the hair. There are so many different things. "If you think about how much stuff we use in a space, and beyond, when clients are taking products home, we have the option to either make a huge impact, positively on the environment or not." But for Ms Lewis, Sustainable Salons is just the beginning. All of the products they use and sell are sourced from biodynamic farms, sold in amber glass bottles with aluminium lids that have been recycled from other products. They also have a worm farm on site where they compost their tea leaves that are offered to clients to take home, using any empty glass bottles leftover from the hair products used. "If we can think about it beyond, 'We can put it in these bins,' that's awesome," Ms Lewis said. "Sustainable Salons do amazing things, but also, how can we reduce going in there in the first place? So I think because we do have the ability to make a real positive change in the environment, I think it's actually super important."
