Project to convert oil-soaked hair mats, mushrooms into dirt Preparing the compost bins to begin make the “lasagna” of oily toxic mix. Lisa Gautier, who is leading the charge to use human hair mats to soak up oil from the Bay Area spill, has been invited...
Ocean lovers help clean an oil-covered beach with an eco-friendly fiber that grows on you. When the container ship Cosco Busan struck the Oakland Bay Bridge on Wednesday, November 7, it ripped a gash in its tank and spilled 58,000 gallons of bunker fuel into...
A group of guerrilla volunteers is cleaning oil from San Francisco’s beaches using an unorthodox, albeit totally organic, method: human hair and mushrooms. CONTINUE READING… SF Gate, Nov 14th, 2007 ...
SAN FRANCISCO BAY OIL SPILL Their mats absorb the slick stuff, then oyster mushrooms turn it to compost Lisa Gautier shows how the globs of oil stick to the hair mats. Lisa Gautier operates a nonprofit called matteroftrust.org that reuses products. She is providing...
In 1989, Phillip McCrory watched a CNN story on the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Seeing the difficulty volunteers were having cleaning oil from the fur of otters, McCrory wondered if perhaps human hair could be used to soak up oil. His curiosity could revolutionize how we...
