Man-made surplus and renewable resources are turned into ecologically-sound, oil-absorbing products
Non-toxic Hair Mats soak up oil and provide a natural and effective alternative to traditional man-made oil-absorbing products. PHOTO: shmooth / http://bit.ly/1WuVoNyAround a pound of hair is cut in each of the United States’ roughly 370,000 hair salons on a daily basis. Leaving approximately 135 million pounds of cut hair, annually, with the potential to clean the earth and create jobs.
Matter of Trust, the 501(c)(3) that focuses on man-made surplus and renewable resources, created Hair Matters, a program that collects the nation’s surplus of cut hair and other fiber samples such as fur, fleece and feathers. Hair Matters then turns these overabundant hair fibers into ecologically-sound, oil-absorbing products that create green jobs, clean up oil manufacturing messes and reverse motor oil automobile pollution in the water.
Emergency Hair Booms are hair stuffed into the legs of clean, donated nylon stockings. Photo: Photo by Infrogmation of New Orleans (1st Procession of the Krewe of Dead Pelicans, New Orleans. Reaction to the BP Deepwater Horizon Gulf oil gusher disaster.) http://bit.ly/1WuVoNy
Non-toxic Hair Mats soak up oil and provide a natural and effective alternative to traditional man-made oil-absorbing products. PHOTO: shmooth / http://bit.ly/1WuVoNy
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