As of yesterday, May 7, 2010, the size of the oil spill was compared to the size of Puerto Rico which is roughly 3,850 square miles. Oil is leaking at a rate of 5,000 barrels a day and the first traces of oil on land were found on the uninhabited Free Mason islands,...
Taking a bit off the top of Gulf oil spill WATERBURY — What began as a Friday afternoon haircut for Linda Friez at her longtime beauty salon, Shears’ Gallery, turned into an unexpected act of recycling that could save Gulf Coast beaches and wildlife. The...
The freshly clipped hair falling unceremoniously to the floor at the Verbena Salon Friday may soon be used to sop up the crude oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico. The St. Philip Street salon is one of many all over the country that donates cut hair to a national...
Can human hair and pantyhose save the Gulf? Well, no, it can’t. The oil slickspreading from a damaged drilling rig off the coast of Louisiana is already too massive for any quick fix, no matter how well intended. But the environmental calamity has inspired a...
POTSDAM — A hair salon owner on Maple Street in the village is looking for other area beauticians and barbers willing to collect customer trimmings as part of a national effort to use human hair to sop up the growing oil spill off the coast of Louisiana. Sara J....
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...
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...
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...
