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Feeling helpless about the Gulf Coast oil spill? Get a haircut.
Barbershops and salons across the country have collected more than 400,000 pounds of discarded locks for Matter of Trust, a San Francisco nonprofit stuffing absorbent booms with hair to soak up oil along the Gulf of Mexico.
It may be crude, but it works.
“Curley, straight, blonde, brunette - any type of hair will do,” said Cala Mahoney, owner of Cala Renee Salon in Beverly.
Since last month’s oil spill, Mahoney has seen worried customers come in for a clip for the coast.
“We’ve received mutliple e-mails and calls from people saying they want to donate for the oil spills,” Mahoney said.
Gina Marie Drakos, a teacher from Danvers, made an appointment to cut up to 10 inches off her curly top. “You don’t want it in your food or washing up on you at the beach, but it’s not littering and it’s not gross. It’s a natural resource that can be used to solve a problem,” Drakos said.
“I look at it as compost. It’s biodegradable, it’ll decompose and it makes perfect sense rather than an artifical material that’s taxing our environment.”
On April 20, an explosion on a BP oil rig caused an underwater pipe to gush millions of gallons of crude oil into the Gulf Coast. The spill is being called a national disaster, with the worst yet to come.
The hair-made booms are just one of many solutions to contain what may be the largest oil spill in history.
“Hair is a natural absorbant, it sucks up everything,” said Cala Renee stylist Erin Bimbo. “We cut and dump so much hair that it’s nice to see it going to something acutually useful,” she added. “I can’t see me going down there. So this is my way of helping out, and I’m sure a lot of people feel the same way.” |
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