UNFORTUNATELY, WE ARE NO LONGER ACCEPTING HAIR.
But if you're interested in collecting hair to make booms for your local waterways, here's how we suggest you go about it:
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HOW TO COLLECT HAIR - set aside ONE designated box (salons usually reuse a box in which shampoo was delivered)
- line the box with a plastic garbage bag so hair, fur, fleece, feathers can't slip out
- ideally donate shampoed hair, although it doesn't have to be. Just don't include filthy hair / fur that has stuff stuck to it.
- any length is fine
- every type of fur & fleece is fine. For hair (straight, curly, all colors, dyed, permed, straightened... all great) but only HEAD hair from humans, please! Yes dread locks are ok to send - although we find they have fungus inside when cut open - so please separate in their own bag and mark "DREADS". They are handled separately. :)
- sweep in all clippings, JUST HAIR, but please NO OTHER GARBAGE (gum, metal clips, paper cups, wrappers...)
- remember volunteers (sometimes young students) have to stuff this hair into booms and don't want to feel garbage or anything sharp
- tie the top of the bag and tape the box shut
- Collect washed, used (even with runs) nylon stocking donations in a separate bag, please.
- Collect fur and other "natural fibers" waste wool, alpaca fleece, horse hair, feathers... again, avoid collecting other garbage or contaminants in with the hair/fur/ fleece fibers... (a handful total per bag of hay and seeds are ok, but no garbage and, of course, absolutely no poo!)
HOW TO MAKE BOOMS-
YOUTUBES - by Matter of Trust
Hair soaks up oil - 3:38
music: "Via Con Me" by Paolo Conte
Hair Boom vs. Conventional Boom 1540 Used Motor Oil DEMO - music: "Canan Nan Gaidheal" by Scottish Women
Hair Boom Ideas from the Bayou - 3:16 music: "Big Chief" By
Professor Longhair
Loose hair & Loose fur OIL DEMO - 0:58 music: "My Other Love" by Pretty Lights
Hair boom in OIL DEMO - 4:13 music: "Arabika" by V. Didulya
Hair boom with mesh OIL DEMO - 1:05 music: "Standing on the World" by Bender (Larry Laven Remix)
How to make a hair boom DEMO- 3:25 music: "Slanty Boogie" by Morgan Hevrin
How to Set up a Boom B Q - 4:35 by Vincent Koistinen
How to apply outer mesh to hair boom DEMO - 2:00 music: "Slanty Boogie"
We used 101407 Orange Mesh - Rolls of 150 ft. @ $49.00 each www.delstarinc.com (800) 531-5112
YouTube Ft. Myers, FL Boom B Q - by Ingrid Setzer & Vincent Koistinen
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