Now that’s thinking with your head. Salons all over the country are collecting hair clippings and sending them down south to use in oil booms that protect the Gulf Coast. Some 400,000 pounds of human hair and animal fur collected by charity groups will be...
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...
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...
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...
