What can we do from Wisconsin to help this oil spill?

What can we do from Wisconsin to help this oil spill?

MADISON (WKOW) — It’s the biggest oil spill in history, and it’s got many on the coast rushing to help out. But here at home, many are feeling a helpless feeling: not knowing where to start when looking for ways to help out. Deerfield resident Ken...
Hair and fur donations to help oil spill

Hair and fur donations to help oil spill

RIB MOUTAIN (WAOW)– Seven year old, Brennan Shaughnessy knows hair clippings usually end up in the trash can, but his clippings have a different destination. His hair will be swept up and shipped out to help absorb oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Employees at...
Haircuts to help clean up the Gulf oil spill

Haircuts to help clean up the Gulf oil spill

WATERLOO (KWWL) — One Waterloo salon is boxing up hair to help clean up the gulf oil spill. O’hana Salon and Spa owner Jamie Oberreuter heard about the idea on the Today Show. Her salon is now saving hair from customers and sending it to Florida through a...
LA Hairy Beasts Get Shorn to Help Soak up Gulf Oil Spill

LA Hairy Beasts Get Shorn to Help Soak up Gulf Oil Spill

LOS ANGELES, May 21 /PRNewswire/ — Downtown Los Angeles’ community-centric barbershop, BOLT BARBERS™ is leading area efforts to use highly porous hair clippings to help soak up oil spilling into the Gulf as a result of the April 20th Deepwater Horizon Oil...
Hairy Situation

Hairy Situation

OILY STRANDS: In light of the recent and tragic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Van Michael Salon is collecting and donating hair to help in the cleaning efforts of the spill. Instead of throwing the extra hair away from a haircut, they are saving it and donating it...
Group collecting hair from Midlands salons for Gulf Coast cleanup

Group collecting hair from Midlands salons for Gulf Coast cleanup

COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) – BP has accepted a boom made from human hair collected from Columbia salons to help with the oil spill clean up, the environmental group Matter of Trust announced Wednesday. More than a dozen Midlands salons have already pledged donations to...