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WASHINGTON POST – Contact lenses, corks and Christmas lights can all be recycled – here’s how
CONTINUE READING... Washington Post, Jun 24th, 2019 https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/home/contact-lenses-corks-and-christmas-lights-can-all-be-recycled-heres-how/2019/06/24/49e7694c-92d2-11e9-aadb-74e6b2b46f6a_story.html
MENTAL FLOSS – 6 Creative Recycling Efforts From Around the Globe
Mental Floss, April 22nd, 2019 https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/94632/6-creative-recycling-efforts-around-globe
HUFFINGTON POST – Human Hair Extensions Are Being Matted Together To Clean Up Oil Spills
It’s an unlikely ending for something as glamorous as hair extensions or as mundane as the clippings from a hairdresser’s floor, but tonnes of human hair are being swept up and knitted together to soak up oil spills from our oceans. CONTINUE READING... ...
CORE77 – Brilliant Materials Insight: Human Hair Can be Used to Clean Up Oil Spills
Here's a perfect example of analyzing a material's properties, then exploiting them to solve a problem. In 1989 an Alabama man named Phil McCrory was watching footage of the Exxon Valdez oil spill on television. The sad footage showed an otter drenched in oil--and...
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC – Janvier 2018
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COYOTE NETWORK NEWS – Renewable Ingenuity
FEBRUARY 1, 2018 Caroline welcomes Lisa Gautier, as we animate the Rising Renaissance of Reverent Ingenuity, we concentrate on what we do want: the upcoming People’s Climate Summit in San Francisco*, Matter of trust’s hair and fur project for cleaning up diesel oils...
NOOZHAWK – BizHawk: Mother and Daughter Reunite After 25 Years & Take Over Popular Coast Village Road Salon
Hair stylist Jennifer Palocsay tracked down her birth mother, Cindy Brokaw, to find out that she too was a stylist in California CONTINUE READING... NoozHawk, Jun 15th, 2017 ...
MENTAL FLOSS – 6 Creative Recycling Efforts From Around the Globe
Recycling isn't—and shouldn’t be—limited to separating plastic cartons, junk mail, and tin cans for the garbage collector. This Earth Day, think outside the plastic bin, and brainstorm creative ways to convert or re-purpose old, discarded, or unexpected materials into...
THE HINDU – Hair Can Be Used to Clean Up Oil Spills – Interview with Lisa Craig Gautier
by Murali N. Krishnaswamy Lisa Craig Gautier, talks about the use of human hair in oil spill management. MatterOfTrust.org, an ecological public charity established in 1998, concentrates on finding uses for naturally abundant renewable resources. It also runs the...
NBC BAY AREA – Nonprofit Using Surplus Hair To Help Clean Up Oil Spills Hopes New Facility In San Francisco Will Be Model For Others
By Garvin Thomas Watch the video here:Â http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/---Non-Profit-Using-Hair-To-Help-Clean-Up-Oil-Spills-Hopes-New-Facility-In-San-Francisco-Will-Be-Model-For-Others-407238015.html?t=2 Spend enough time in San Francisco and you begin to think...