Gautier turns donated hair into mats used to soak up oil spills on land, and booms (long tubes) used for spills at sea. A standard way to clean up oil from land is to use mats made from polypropylene.

who had the idea for hair mats being a useful tool for oily-cleanup when he'd seen an otter being rescued from the Exxon Valdez spill in Alaska with its fur matted in oil. McCrory tested his ...

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 ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - A non-profit organization uses an often discarded part of the body to clean up deadly oil spills: the hair on your head. No, they won't flip you over and use you like a mop.

Human hair is a surprisingly effective way to clean up oil spills. North Carolina Lt. Gov Mark Robinson Hospitalized After Burn 'Incident': Reports The best public college in America, according to ...

Collected hair is being donated to Matter of Trust, a nonprofit environment organization, where it is formed into mats and brooms for the cleanup of oil spills such as the one in the Gulf of Mexico.

For years, Selene Estrach has seen how Venezuela’s crumbling oil industry has ... They’re also using hair to create furry, mat-like devices that can be used to clean up the shore, she said.

The organization will mail all the donated fur to the nonprofit organization Matter of Trust, to use in its "Hair for Oil Spills" program. Matter of Trust will make "hair mats" and "hair booms" to ...

Capones says the hair and clothes can be packed and strung ... President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. ordered the cleanup of the oil spill to be completed in four months. The Philippines has asked for ...