The words and images shown below come from the Matter of Trust website – http://www.matteroftrust.org. Learn more about what you can do to help during this Gulf crisis and ideas that you can share with friends and clients. How we handle this difficult situation will affect us all for years to come.
News crews in every city throughout North America and beyond are showing up at local participating salons
Over 100 volunteers produced a lot of boom at Felix' Fish Camp, Mobile Alabama May 13, 2010. Led by Amanda Bacon
Some donors get wonderfully creative with their boxes!
Donated hair comes in from all over US and Canada.
Sparkle Beauty Bar owners Keelie Duncan and AnnSimone Mickelberry assess their take from haircut clients. The hair eventually ends up in mats used to clean up oil spills.
Grooming the post-cut hair free of errant trash is the last step before boxing it up and shipping it to Matter of Trust, a San Francisco-based nonprofit that collects hair from about 300,000 salons and barbershops throughout North and South America, China and India.
The hair is woven into mats that can soak up oil from oil spills, as well — or perhaps better, some argue — than commercial spill remediation products. The mats can be wrung out and reused 30 to 100 times, and afterward broken down organically using mushroom spores.
Lots of donors... from California let's count them :) thanks Leanna Kielian
Oil Spill Hair Mat - Invented by Phil McCrory - Phil's company has allowed our charity to try to make mats in the US with donated hair as part of our Green Jobs program.
Proud donors from Cabot, PA - Star Weaver Farm Alpacas Photos are by Jillian Ramsey Stern
