A hair-raising issue Oil spills can contaminate drinking water, endanger public health, harm plants and wildlife, and damage the economy. In 2021, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

A hair salon in Newport Beach is helping to clean up the massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill, one haircut at a time. All of the clippings that stylists sweep from the floor at Hair West Salon, 2817 ...

STUART, Fla. — Heather Lundstrum would like to help clean up the growing oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico. She may not have much time — she’s a mother and a hair salon owner — but she has ...

Matter of Trust has now felted over 300,000 oil cleanup booms, and over 40,000 hair mats for major disaster projects, including the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010.

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The Sweet200 salon in north Oak Cliff has joined a national drive to collect human hair and animal fur for use in cleaning up oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill. However, the Coast Guard hasn't ...

As BP spends millions of dollars a day on efforts to contain the oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico, environmental organization Matter of Trust is doing its part by soliciting donations of hair, fur, ...

Stateside, L.A.-based hairstylist Kristen Shaw, who first learned that human hair could be used to help clean up oil spills during the Deepwater Horizon spill, has been collecting hair for when it ...

This small square mat can soak up roughly 1.5 gallons of oil, making the hair mats a natural oil spill cleanup tool that we’d be stupid not to take full advantage of.

An oil spill has been spotted off the coast of the Philippines, after a tanker carrying about 1.4 million liters of industrial fuel oil capsized. ... Clean up oil spills with hair.

A hair-raising issue Oil spills can contaminate drinking water, endanger public health, harm plants and wildlife, and damage the economy. In 2021, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

San Francisco-based Matter of Trust takes human hair and animal fur and makes it into mats that are used to soak up oil spills.