Where does all our moulted hair go?

Question

Okay i know this sounds weird, but if every human moults hair everyday, how come we are not wading through generations' worth of hair in the streets? what happens to it? i don't think it rots away does it?

yeh i know it gets washed down the drain and things like that, but why are all the streets not full of a giant mass of hair? (eeew)

Answer 1

Well if your outside i would suggest the air flows move that sort of thing around, even on a nice day air moves around, you have all the human inventions as well to help clean it up, but as for decomposing i would say it only takes a short time as it was living matter

Answer 2

I've never thought of that before. I'm not sure. Probably just goes down the drain when you wash your hair and when you vacuum your floor it gets cleaned up.

Answer 3

Keratin the main component of the hair it is bio degradable.
This is the same material of which the exoskeleton of the haunts is made. So we don't see so much hair around for the same reason we don't see dead hunts

Answer 4

When I run my rug shampooer over the rug, I find all the hair on the brush and it looks like a cat's tail. Some is in my brush. Some is in the drain.

Answer 5

. It gets hoovered up, and washed away in the washing machine, comes out in your hairbrush, down the drain when you wash your hair

its the same with skin flakes

Answer 6

Pull your bed away from the wall and hoover it all up! Also clings to fabric headboards and your mattress. Happy hunting!

Answer 7

Up the hoover or down the plughole, in the car everywhere. Sometimes It ends up in your dinner so watch out. lol.

Answer 8

It is on the street, floor everywhere, Look into your bed, corner of your apartment.

Answer 9

that's the reason for dust mites.... they survive on shed skin cells, human hair, animal dander, pollen, fungi, and some bacteria....

http://www.ehso.com/ehshome/dustmites.php