GULF OIL SPILL - HOW EVERYONE CAN HELP (donate your hair & nylons)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.matteroftrust.org/


Together we are now orchestrating an INTERNATIONAL NATURAL FIBER RECYCLING MOVEMENT! Instructions page

Why use oil based products to clean up oil spills?

Why should millions of pounds of absorbant, natural, renewable fiber go to waste every day?

We all get it. We shampoo because hair collects oil.

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP TO DONATE NYLONS & HAIR / FUR / WOOL...

A delivery address in the Gulf will be emailed to you. We're not posting warehouse addresses on the web, because we're coordinating how much goes where. All along the Gulf Coast new harbor depots are being temporarily donated to this cause. We're doing this in WAVES (now on WAVE 6) due to the unprecedented surge of donors signing up every hour! They're coming in from all over the US as well as Canada, UK, France, Spain, Germany, Turkey...! It's an international community philanthropic phenomenon!

Anyone and Everyone: salons, groomers, wool farmers and individuals can sign up to donate hair, fur, waste wool... clippings and nylons and funding for our Hair for Oil Spills program. Our Excess Access program SIGN UP is FREE, FAST and HELPS us to coordinate the masses of donations going to the Gulf. More info (at link)


San Francisco Cosco Busan Oil Spill Cleanup

Hundreds of thousands of pounds of hair and nylons are coming in now by UPS, FED EX, USPS (we're getting our own zip codes now) as well as donated trucking, from every State in the US and from Canada, UK, France, Spain, Germany, Brazil..! Everyone wants to make this happen!

Booms are being made all along the Gulf Coast. And harbors Internationally are emailing us about how to set up collection and storage for the 2,600 smaller spills every year! More info

Natural Surplus Programs
Our Natural Surplus programs concentrate on materials that are found abundantly in nature.

OIL SPILL HAIRBOOMS AND HAIRMATS
Thousands of salons, groomers, wool farmers, individuals... mail in hair, fur, wool... clippings, swept up off their floors. The fibers are stuffed into recycled nylons and covered in mesh to make booms or, when possible, woven into hair mats.

We all know about shampooing our oily hair, but it took Phill McCrory, a stylist from Alabama, to realize that hair was an efficient and abundant material for collecting and containing petroleum spills. Phil's company Ottimat.com sells hair mas made of hair purchased in China, where hair, fur and wool have been recycled for thousands of years. The mats are made there, where the textile industry is booming.

For over a decade, Ottimat has partnered Matter of Trust to orchestrate an International Natural Fiber Recycling system and stimulate green jobs and the textile industry! To participate please sign up here. More


Manmade Surplus Programs
You can visit our many Manmade Surplus programs that focus on reuse of manufactured surplus items and materials. Our largest program is ROSA (Reuse Of Society's Abundance) and its online database Excess Access for matching nonprofit wish lists with business and household donations of second hand furniture, clothes, toys...


MORE great info at link.

[Warpy]

1. One salon here in town is collecting it

along with animal hair from groomers. If I hadn't gotten my summer cut (almost a buzz cut) before the blowout, I'd contribute.

I might have to fall by and donate some money for postage, though.

[madmax]

2. More here:

http://www.care2.com/greenliving/oil-spill-donating-your-pets-hair-and-your-hair-to-help.html

[pleah]

3. Hmm.

Does anyone really think they will receive enough for this.

http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/gulf_of_mexico_oil_spill_anima.html

the wrong link posted.

[Scurrilous]

4. K & R

:thumbsup:

[Dappleganger]

5. It's about time to get a haircut.

Summer's here and there's about 6 inches which needs to come off...I have found a place at the beach who is donating, too.

Great idea!

[G_j]

6. Dog Hair Too

http://www.stargazette.com/article/20100507/NEWS01/5070353/1117/NEWS/Dog+hair+being+used+to+contain+the+Gulf+oil+spill

Dog hair being used to contain the Gulf oil spill
Elmira groomers spreading the word
By Ray Finger • May 7, 2010, 6:55 pm

You may think of the hair of the dog as a proverbial cure for hangovers, but animal fur -- and human hair as well -- is actually being used to help clean up the Gulf Coast oil spill.

Toughpups and Pampered Princesses, a dog-grooming and canine day care business in Elmira, is part of a national effort to collect clippings from animal groomers, barber shops and hair salons. The material will be stuffed into recycled pantyhose, tied up as sausage-shaped "hair booms" and sent to the Louisiana coast to contain the spill.

"I would like to get a couple of hundred pounds, if at all possible," business owner Leo Sanders said after he kicked off the effort on Friday. He is collecting animal fur, human hair and nylons to be shipped and assembled elsewhere.

"We've been trying to get the word out to as many people as possible just to bring their animals down. We can take care of everything," he said. "It's summertime. If you were thinking about getting your dog groomed, now's the time to do it because it can really help. It's more important than it's ever been, quite frankly."

Instead of being absorbent, animal fur and human hair are adsorbent -- meaning that oil will cling to the hair booms that are being used to encircle and contain the oil slick, according to Matter of Trust, a San Francisco-based environmental charity.

..more..

[intheflow]

8. My friend was talking about this today.

She got her dog groomed and saw all the dog hair and thought the same thing, and talked with her groomer about this but they didn't know where to send it. This is very helpful info. Thanks!

[Ian David]

7. Borat and Eric Cartman were right. A bag of pubes IS valuable. n/t

[Omaha Steve]

9. Kick