 Hey everyone, Rob Greenfield here and this is the off-the-grid zero waste haircut and beard cut That's right. No electricity, no waste, but a nice clean cut Now a lot of you know me as a guy who kind of lives off the land or sort of an earthy simple living kind of guy, but I still like to have a nice clean Head of hair and beard. I just don't like to have a big bushy beard This is about as long as I like to get So I have a few tools for that whether I'm in the city or in the countryside number one an old-school vintage manual trimmer and I've adapted a simple guard to have the right length and then a scissors for working around the edge That's what I need to keep nice and trim Plus one other thing of course a mirror I can do without but this thing makes things a lot easier So check these out. These are just like the electrical ones that most men use today except one big difference No electricity. I just squeeze the handle and that does the work Now most electricity today is made from fossil fuels This on the other hand is using an alternative renewable energy human energy and most electronics Today they don't last very long. They're designed for the dump This thing on the other hand It's probably about 50 years old Now that's the off the grid part, but where's zero waste come in well Most people when they cut their hair all of the hair goes to a landfill Goes to the garbage can and then the garbage goes to the landfill There it's designed to stay in the landfill not break down So this stuff here can actually last for decades or even longer Even if it does break down it doesn't become part of the earth It doesn't nurse the earth on the other hand when I cut this hair and I let it fall to the ground it just goes back to the earth to actually nourish the soil Plus here no cleanup is even needed not a broom a dustpan anything But if I'm in the city what I can do is just sweep up the hair and then put it in the compost Me I'd rather be free than in the landfill It's really easy to never think about it But in one lifetime the average person cuts their hair hundreds of times and each time They send a part of themselves to the landfill or back to the earth and Speaking of waste disposable razors That's another thing where you can use thousands of those or hundreds of those in a lifetime with this every single time No garbage is created and if you think about it you can spend Thousands of dollars going to the barber over your lifetime or you could put those thousands of dollars into bettering your community and Sure doing it on my own. I don't always have a perfect cut. Sometimes I make mistakes But what's important to you looking perfect or looking out for the earth? Now last thing What about fingernails? That's another thing that we might not think about I have a standard nail clipper But same thing I go outside I Clip away and those fingernails go back to the earth just like the hair does now a lot of us Haven't really thought about these things before maybe not once but these little things They really do add up for better or worse the question is which do you want better or worse?