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Posted By zahava1980 9 months ago in NewsPoza Salon donates its hair clippings to MatterOfTrust.org; where hair is recycled into mats that naturally collect oil spills from oceans.Why hair?
You shampoo your hair because it gets greasy. Hair is very efficient at collecting oil out of the air, off surfaces like your skin and out of the water, even petroleum oil. Hair is adsorbent (as in "clings to" unlike absorbent which is to "soak up.") There are over 370,000 hair salons in the US and each collects about 1 pound of hair a day. Right now, most of that goes into the waste stream, but it should all be made into hair mats."
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