I was having my haircut at Changes Salon in Nashville today. I saw a little poster taped in the corner of the dressing room about how Changes was helping Matter of Trust, a not-for-profit, collect human hair that is made into mats that soak up oil spills. ExcessAccess puts salons together with Matter of Trust. It made my day to see that with a little effort, our discarded hair can help suffering animals and the environment. Want to know more? Check it out:
 | HAIR MATS FOR OIL SPILLS |
Oil Spill Hair Mats - 2000-present
Matter of Trust has collaborated with thousands of salons throughout the US and abroad to donate their hair clippings which are made into mats that soak up oil spills.
Salons generously pay out of pocket for postage to send their swept up hair clippings to a recycling depot in California provided by St. Vincent de Paul Society. This partnership program combines reuse, micro-economy and ecological oil spill clean up. Salons have free access to the Excess Access database which catalogs the postage donations and emails receipts for the recycled hair donations.
There are over 370,000 hair salons in the US and each cut about one pound of hair a day! Matter of Trust does the outreach for the program through posters in salons and media P/R. Posters also include information about how hair is also a slow protein release and excellent fertilizer for flower growers. For more information on hair as fertilizer please see Smart Grow.
Salons and Dog Groomers, Everyone Please Join In:
Sign up is FREE for salons - but the package including the 3 posters costs a total of $10, if you want them. There is no obligation. Please sign up first, before mailing in hair, so that we have you on our database and can contact you for emergency spill hair donations or changes in addresses to send hair. In the Payment section - use the Hair Salons option for free sign up or the Pay by check or Credit card options if you do want the posters. Click on this link then scroll to the bottom BUSINESS SIGN UP to donate hair. Salons mail in hair to the address below. Please see Instructions below:
The current address to send hair, once you have signed up:
Oil Spill Hair Mats
Matter of Trust.org
1960 Williams Street
San Leandro CA 94577
Instructions:
Please line boxes (recycled shampoo supply boxes work well) with plastic garbage bags. Please no metal pins or clips (if possible, please no cigarette butts or paper cups etc.).
Yes, individuals can also mail in to this warehouse, no matter what they've done to their hair. Pet hair is ok too - but not as efficient . As if Mother Nature said "Only humans will be silly enough to spill oil. Better dangle the best solution in front of their eyes."
Yes all types and colors of hair can be donated, since everyone lays on the beaches and swims in the waters. And especially since all the hair and oil are removed as toxic waste. Our beaches have been used to hair, fur and feathers since long before oil spills.
We are also accepting clean, used, runned nylons which we double, cut and stuff with the hair to make "booms" that surround and contain as well as soak up oil spills.
1 comment:
This idea is beyond brilliant!
Thanks for stopping into the Cafe and yes Wal-Mart can break our hearts.
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