Leeds hair to be used to mop up US oil spill – May 2010

A Leeds hairdresser is at the cutting edge of plans to save the Gulf Of Mexico from environmental disaster. Human hair from a Headingley salon is being used to mop up the damage caused by a ruptured oil well which threatens to spill over and destroy the coastline in...
Staunton Business Helping with Gulf Oil Cleanup

Staunton Business Helping with Gulf Oil Cleanup

Scientists say the threat of oil moving from the Gulf of Mexico to Florida and beyond is great. There are some local businesses pitching in to help stop the flow. The Hair Cuttery in Staunton jumped on board Tuesday, donating all its hair clippings to Matter of...

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...

Hair today, gone tomorrow – May 2010

CUMBERLAND — Rhiannon Holler’s salon customers are now being treated to something new. Sure, it’s the same old shampoo, cut and style. But the hair cut off is no longer being trucked to the nearest landfill. Instead, Holler’s clients at Mane Kreations in Bowling Green...
Local hair headed to help clean up Gulf oil spill

Local hair headed to help clean up Gulf oil spill

Sun, 16 May 2010 22:56:33 GMT — Captain Michael Kirsch of Temperance, Michigan was in working in the Gulf of Mexico when a BP oil rig exploded on April 20, 2010. Captain Kirsch was also at sea, about 45 miles away from the rig. It was just a typical day in the gulf,...