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MENTAL FLOSS – 6 Creative Recycling Efforts From Around the Globe

Mental Floss, April 22nd, 2019...

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...

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   BizHawk: Mother and Daughter Reunite After 25 Years & Take Over Popular...

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...
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