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To Donate Hair
Salons, Barbers...
And yes, individuals can also mail hair in to the warehouse (see above
link). Pet hair is ok too, but less efficient. As
if Mother Nature said "Only humans will be silly enough to spill
huge amounts of oil. Better dangle the best solution as greasy bangs
in front of their eyes."
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MAY
2008
San
Francisco Bay Area Is Revolutionizing and Greening Oil Spill Cleanup
First, we used mats made from
human hair clippings to soak up oil at Ocean Beach from the Cosco-Busan
Oil Spill. Then, with Paul Stamets, we set up a treatability site
using oyster mushrooms to eat oily-hairmats and create
compost for freeway landscaping (see Why
this works).
And now we're collecting hair from thousands of salons and launching
a green jobs site in partnership with The East Bay Depot For Creative
Reuse, to be staffed by youth (18-22 year olds) transitioning from
foster care.
Volunteers soaking up oil with hairmats
.............. Volunteer making oily-hairmat-eating mushroom
lasagna
(more photos)
.............................................(more
photos)
Also
check out our friends at Smartgrow.net
(re hairmats) and Fungi.com
(re mushrooms)
Thanks For All The Press!
SF
Chronicle 11/30/07, Common
Ground 3/1/08, The
Tennessean 1/15/08, SF
Chronicle 11/14/07, Chicago
Tribune, Forbes,
LA
Times,
Scientific
American, Canada's
Globe and Mail, San
Jose Mercury News,
Seattle
Pi, Portland
Tribune, Plenty
Magazine, TV: KRON
TV,
NBC
11 TV, TV
20, KGW
Portland,
Online: YouTubes,
National
Wildlife Federation, TreeHugger.com,
Truthout,
Audubon,
Natural
Living... Radio: Terra
Verde on KPFA FM,
KCBS.com,
Even cartoons!...
For press contact Lisa Gautier at lisa@matteroftrust.org
415 235 2403 cell
NATURAL SURPLUS
Our natural surplus programs concentrate on fibers and
substances that are found in abundance in nature. Our 2007 highlighted
program is Oil
Spill Hair Mats. Thousands of salons mail in hair clippings
swept up off their floors and the fibers are woven into mats. We all
know about shampooing our oily hair, but it took Phill McCrory, a
stylist from Alabama, to realize that hair was also an efficient and
abundant material for collecting and containing petroleum spills.
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