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Clean hair stockpiled to help with oil spill – June 2010
MIDDLETOWN -- Debby Mastrianni, owner of The Hair Affair inside Main Street Market, opens up a cardboard box packed with about 250 different types of shorn hair. Normally, this large cluster of locks would just be swept up and thrown away. But for now, Mastrianni will...
CSR Wire – Hooters Girls Donate Their Pantyhose to Create Booms and Absorb Up to 1 Million Gallons of Oil in the Gulf of Mexico
/PRNewswire/ -- Hooters Girls from all over the country will be voluntarily donating their torn pantyhose in an effort to help absorb the oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico. The laundered pantyhose are used to make booms which are stuffed with hair, fur and fleece to...
Valley animal fibers helping Gulf relief effort – June 2010
Idaho may be land locked, but Valley residents are pulling together to help the Gulf clean-up effort by using fibers from ranch animals. Tetonia alpaca breeder Tom Cleary is spearheading an effort to collect clippings that will be made into oil-soaking booms in the...
Share hair – a booming business: Gulf disaster spurs new use for tresses – June 2010
The situation in the Gulf of Mexico just got a little hairier with Los Altos Retreat Salon & Spa’s first-aid shipment of – what else? – hair, to a warehouse in Florida. Add nylon stockings, meshing and a little elbow grease, and the hair that once covered heads...
Salon Contributes to Gulf Clean-Up Effort – June 2010
Santa Barbara’s Salon Patine, located on upper State Street, has taken an inventive, practical approach to cleaning the Gulf of Mexico of the oil that now permeates it. In collaboration with Pureology Serious Color Care, which is also making a conscious effort to help...
Now hair this! B’klyn Salons to collect trimmings for oil spill relief – June 2010
Hair’s a good idea. As the federal government and BP bungle the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, two Williamsburg salons — one for humans, one for dogs — has come forward with a plan that’s just crazy enough to work: for the next month, all of their customers’ clip...
Long Beach Report – June 2010
(June 4, 2010) -- USAToday.com online now has a story on the actions of BP and its federal bureaucratic partners spurning volunteered animal fur and human hair that could soak up oil from the BP-drilled, federally-authorized deep water well in the Gulf coast. The...
Bismarck hair clippings being sent to help with Gulf oil spill cleaning – June 2010
Hair may be a solution. The Hair Academy is collecting its hair clippings to send to New Orleans to be used in booms to sop up oil in the Gulf. “Everyone was very excited, very willing to help,” said Kelli Folk, who brought the idea to her teacher. “Even our clients...
Hair today, saving the Gulf of Mexico tomorrow – June 2010
Grant Wittevrongel recently travelled all the way from his home in Transcona to Portage Avenue just to get his hair cut at Lyla’s Family Affair hair salon. Wittevrongel’s hair will soon be traveling even further than he did — all the way to the Gulf of Mexico, in...
Spill project hair-oic – June 2010
Your hair has the power to help to stop the nastiest oil spill in U.S. history from spreading. That fact gave two Barrie residents the hair-brained idea to help mop up the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Chris Kitchen and Cheryl Lago are collecting human and animal...