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 ...

(CNN) - A nonprofit based in San Francisco is using human hair and animal fur to help clean up oil spills. A standard way to clean up oil on land is to use mats made from polypropylene, a non ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...