* Homemade booms developed after 1989 Exxon Valdez spill * Hair, pantyhose are weapons in fight against oil slick * They act as sponge, absorbing and trapping spilled crude (Repeating to delete repeated lines) By Kelli Dugan MOBILE, Ala., May 6 While a vast...
The connection between dog grooming and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill might seem, at first blush, a tenuous one at best — but thanks to a charity called Matter of Trust, the two seemingly incongruous things are linked in a great way. The San Francisco-based...
STORY HIGHLIGHTS Your hair and pet’s fur is needed to help clean Gulf oil spill The hair and fur is stuffed into nylon stockings which become booms The oil clings to the hair booms and mats which are then removed from water Matter of Trust is coordinating...
Workers in the Gulf of Mexico are using oil containment booms to sop up oil and protect coastlines from the approaching slick. Commercial booms are usually made of plastic. But an alternative source for the booms is found on the floor of salons across the country. As...
SAN FRANCISCO — For the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster, there will be a 100 ton containment box will be moved into place to try to soak up some of the oil, but there will also be another method to be used to control the spill. It is strange method and has a...
As millions of gallons of oil float toward the Gulf Coast, tons of one eminently renewable — and absorbent — resource are being shipped in to stop it: hair. And pantyhose. At least 400,000 pounds of human hair and animal fur (cat, dog, sheep, alpaca), donated from...
