Lend Your Locks, Used Pantyhose to Help Oil Spill Cleanup Efforts
Posted By Yuka Yoneda On May 4, 2010 @ 12:47 pm In Recycled Materials,Water Issues | 3 Comments
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If you’re due for a haircut, don’t let your hairdresser sweep those locks into the garbage can! Matter of Trust [5], a San Francisco-based nonprofit that collects landfill-bound locks from hundreds of thousands of salons and barbershops throughout the world to make oil spill absorbing hair mats [4] and booms out of could sure use them! And with the Gulf of Mexico oil spill [6] raging out of control, there’s never been a better time for a trim.
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