Could dog hair be used to help with Oil Cleanup.....
 well it's a very clever and interesting use for clipped off dog hair ....i found this online in the Salsa Verde newspaper Could hair from groomed Austin dogs help with oil cleanup? By Asher Price | Wednesday, May 5, 2010, 03:27 PM Could dog hair help sop up oil threatening to lap up on coastal seashores in the Gulf? Kit Brooking, who runs West End Grooming, a grooming place for pets, tells me she’s planning to send heaps of dog hair to Matter of Trust, a San Francisco nonprofit that makes fur and nylon into oil booms, known as "hairbooms". "I just thought it was a cool thing, and am spreading word to people who cut hair in town," she said. "Whether it's human or dog hair, it's one thing we can do to help out with the oil spill." "The usual line from people is, 'Golly, isn't there something you can do with [all that hair]," she said. "We're just pleased we can do something with it." Matter of Trust has not returned a call for comment. My favorite part of the group’s website is a line in the "Contact Us" page that says "PLEASE DO NOT SEND HAIR, FUR, WASTE WOOL etc. TO THIS ADDRESS." (Donors are instructed to register before learning where to send their material.) "Thousands of salons mail us hair clippings, swept up off their floors, and the fibers are stuffed into booms or woven into hair mats," according to Matter of Trust’s website. "We all know about shampooing our oily hair, but it took Phill McCrory, a stylist from Alabama, to realize that hair was also an efficient and abundant material for collecting and containing petroleum spills." |
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| Interesting! |
Oh, Kaaathy?? |
| Our local tv station has been wanting to interview me about this  They did a clip on sending human hair and I emailed to let them know that you could send dog hair too. I told them that I would be shaving my dogs and planned to send their hair... Next thing I know they are calling me wanting to do a story! I was very excited but, way too shy to accept!  |
| A great reason for us all to get them shaved for the summer...................I'm in~! |
Code: Next thing I know they are calling me wanting to do a story!  I'm sorry... this still makes me laugh. Thinkin' you should be wearing a shirt that says Carolina's OES Rescue while you do the interview.  |
6Girls wrote: Code: Next thing I know they are calling me wanting to do a story! I'm sorry... this still makes me laugh. Thinkin' you should be wearing a shirt that says Carolina's OES Rescue while you do the interview. It makes me shake in my shoes thinking of being on camera! I think it would have been great if I had more courage though! I tried to get Marty to do it since he has been on before for work but, nahhhhhhhhhh....... |
My groomer donated Walter's hair last time we shaved him, it was 2 garbage bags worth! Walter is very environmentally conscious  |
| I might cut Clyde just so I can donate. Check out this video, it's interesting to see how they put it to use as well as the facts and figures associated with it. |
| I wonder how much a section of that mat weighs, and how much oil it collects. (Did I happen to miss those factoids?) |
Ron wrote: I wonder how much a section of that mat weighs, and how much oil it collects. (Did I happen to miss those factoids?) When I was trying to find out what they did with the mats after they were used, I came across this (it kind of answers your question, but not mine!) What happens to used hair mats? Quote: Matter of Trust, a nonprofit that uses human hair scraps to make mats to clean up oil spills, finds itself with 18,000 pounds of hair and nobody to process it. Lisa Gautier, who runs the organization, says that the recession has closed many of the textile makers that produced the mats and the warehouse that stored them. Unfortunately for Lisa the hair keeps piling up. From the article: "Hair is good at soaking up oil because, up close, the strands are shaped like a palm tree with scalelike cuticles. Drops of oil naturally cling inside those cuticles, says Blair Blacker, chief executive of the World Response Group. A pound of hair can pick up one quart of oil in a minute, and it can be wrung out and reused up to 100 times, Mrs. Gautier says." |
| When I worked at sea, we used to use felted wool mats to seperate oil from the sea water that would come on deck, from our Hydraulic equipment bunds (a wall around the foot of the eqipment to catch leaks etc), it is very very effective. |
| There was a news story on yesterday about the hair. They were at an alpaca farm. They were donating the shearing from their alpaca herd to the oil cleanup project! |
| Where so you send it??? |
| The best way to get lots of hair to them is to tell your groomer where to send it. |
| There was a story in our local paper this morning about getting dogs shaved and sending the hair. Lots of groomers got in on it. As for where to send it???? |
| Very cool! |
| We have "Do Dah Day" here in Birmingham, which is a parade and get together for animal lovers, that supports our local humane society. They had groomers available for brushing and shaving, for free of course, and all the hair the collected was going to the oil spill efforts. They managed to donate to two great causes this year! |
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