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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...