Collect hair Movement Can Overcome Oil Spill

Louisiana-Winners-crowded donate hair turned out to help clean up oil spills. In the United States and Europe, the hairdressers, nurses pets and breeders are now aggressively collecting hair and fur to help clean up oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico.

Matter of Trust, the social institutions that raise the hair and fur collection through Facebook, said that around 370 thousand salon has been supporting this movement. Approximately 204 thousand pounds of hair and feathers are reported arrive every day.

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Hair is a very efficient material to suck various kinds of oil, including oil, said one of the founders of Matter of Trust Lisa Gautier told BBC's World Today. Hair and feathers are then inserted into the pipe from the nylon fabric to help lift and inhale a spray of oil spills from wells that exploded in the waters of Louisiana.

Gautier describes each strand of hair follicles have a tremendous surface area and oil can be 'attached' to the surface. Hair volunteers to fill the pipe from the nylon fabric in 15 warehouses located near the disaster zone. The result, they created''giant''Hair sausage or dams to hold the oil.

Holder was held at the beach instead of at sea, and suck the oil that float to the beach. This technique is supported by Applied Fabric Technologies, retaining second-largest oil producer in the world.

Gautier said the donations came from France, England, Spain, Brazil, Australia, Canada and the United States. New volunteers still continue to flow. Updated information about hair donation and delivery of books is constantly being updated on the Facebook account of this volunteer organization.

Alpaca and sheep ranchers are also involved, said a social institution based in Francisco, USA.
Oil overflow at a rate of 5000 barrels per day since 20 April, after an explosion at an oil platform hired a British oil company, BP.