One innovative nonprofit has an oddly stylish solution to help with the spreading oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico: using an unlikely pairing to clean it up—hair and hosiery! Since 1998, Matter of Trust has been collecting donations of oil-absorbing human hair and...
LINDEN, Michigan — When residents get their hair cut at Serendipity Day Spa this month, their scraps of hair will be traveling a lot farther than the trash can. The salon is sending customers’ hair trimmings to the Gulf of Mexico to help clean up a massive oil spill...
A local salon is turning trash into treasure. The Walter-Todd Salon in North Park accumulates a pound of hair a day. These typically trashed clippings are now finding a new life, serving as mini-warriors in the fight against oil spill in the Gulf. “You know, I felt...
* 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...
