HOW STUFF WORKS – Donate Your Hair to Help Keep Our Water Clean

When you get a haircut, those piles of hair that are left behind on the floor don’t have to go into the trash. Instead, surprisingly, that hair can be used to help stop oil spills and leakage from contaminating the environment. CONTINUE READING…   How...

IMPAKTER – How Hair Cleans Up Oil Spills

Hairy problems require hairy solutions: Countries across the globe are using hair to clean up water pollution, from park drains to oil spills CONTINUE READING…   Impakter, Dec 31st, 2022 How Hair Cleans Up Oil...

DW – A hairdresser using hair to save the sea

A hairdresser makes use of her customers’ cut hair to make special mats to help clean the coast and sea in event of oil spills in her native country Wales. Human hair is a natural oil absorber. CONTINUE READING…   DW, Dec 1st, 2022...