Human hair is being used to clean up oil spills
CNN
San Francisco-based Matter of Trust takes human hair and animal fur and makes it into mats that are used to soak up oil spills.
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.
A standard way to clean up oil from land is to use mats made from polypropylene. But polypropylene is a non-biodegradable plastic, and producing it ultimately means more drilling for oil.
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