With her San-Francisco-based non-profit organization Matter of Trust, Gautier turns donated hair into mats used to soak up oil spills on land, and booms (long tubes) used for spills at sea.

In 1989, Philip McCrory, a hairstylist in Alabama, first designed a hair-filled net to be used after oil spills, which NASA later tested and found effective. Researchers from the University of ...

A non-profit out of San Francisco, California, is cleaning up oil spills using the naturally adsorbent properties of human hair, woven into thick mats that soak up a gallon and a half at a time.

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 ...

Thought up by a resourceful Alabama hairstylist Phil McCrory after watching coverage of the Exxon Valdez spill, the idea is that oil clings to microscopic scales on hair shafts—a macro version ...

Which is why people all around the world, like Hama, have been collecting hair and finding innovative ways to recycle it, from weaving it into mats for mopping up oil spills to liquidizing it for ...

Residents across Palawan and Mindoro, popular tourist destinations in the Philippines, are rallying in all kinds of ways, including by donating human hair, to help contain an oil spill that ...

Adele said all the waste hair was sent away to be recycled into mats that were used to absorb the oil from water when oil spills occurred. This gave her the idea to create a service that allowed ...

Clean up oil spills with hair Posted: July 26, 2024 | Last updated: July 29, 2024 An oil spill has been spotted off the coast of the Philippines, after a tanker carrying about 1.4 million liters ...

The hair, which is highly absorbent, is then turned into biodegradable floating barriers to soak up oil spills on the lake. SELENE ESTRACH: (Speaking Spanish). OTIS: It's a small step, but Selene ...