Scotch Plains Salon Aiding Gulf Oil Spill Clean-up – May 2010

Strut Your Cut is collecting hair clippings that will help soak up the millions of gallons of crude that has leaked into the Gulf of Mexico since April 20. This month at Scotch Plains hair salon Strut Your Cut, “Your haircut’s a lifesaver,” says...

Weatherford hair helps soak up oil spill – May 2010

Say what? How can boxes of leftover hair come to the aid of one of the worst U.S. oil spill in history? The answer is, hair absorbs natural skin oils, that’s why we wash it. So why not petroleum? It’s really not such a hair-brained idea. Weatherford Sport Clips...

Oil spill could be ‘hairy’ situation – May 2010

For several weeks, Americans have watched anxiously as oil leaking from the catastrophic explosion of a BP rig in the Gulf of Mexico edges closer and closer to the Louisiana coast. The oil spill began with an explosion and fire April 20 on the Deepwater Horizon...

Haircut today, greener tomorrow – May 2010

Bad news continues to flow more than three weeks after a massive oil-rig explosion 50 miles off the Louisiana coast, fueling collective senses of not just dread but frustration. Yet many Americans looking for a way to help counter this environmental (and economic)...