A Big Box of Hair

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I heard about this on Tabatha's Salon Makeover and it's a great idea.

But a better idea is to seriously stop our consumption of petrolium based products but clearly we have no desire to do that.

Cato the Younger Younger on May 11, 2010 at 7:41 AM

@1 wins the Seattle Hippy and Debby Downer comment of the day already. Good move.

TheMisanthrope on May 11, 2010 at 8:23 AM

@2, just keeping it real. :)

Cato the Younger Younger on May 11, 2010 at 8:32 AM

Also see:

"Which Seattle salons are donating hair for oil spill booms?"
http://questionland.thestranger.com/ques…

stinkbug on May 11, 2010 at 8:46 AM

Local Seattle meat restaurants should step up and donate the tons of animal hair they currently burn or throw away. It's not a small number! Cows, pigs, horses, lambs, goats, and rabbits all have a large amount of coarse hair.

Bethany, you have ins with local restaurants - how about contacting them to donate the tons of animal hair they don't serve? Quinn's alone could make a huge difference.

on May 11, 2010 at 8:47 AM

Can short hair clippings be donated or is long hair a requirement?

Simone on May 11, 2010 at 8:57 AM

@6 all hair that is cut is swept up and put in a bag to donate where I work. (Zero Zero)

Greycat on May 11, 2010 at 10:16 AM

I used to have to mop up large oil spills from transformers.

Cotton Bales.

Seriously. It's the south, there's lots of them, and they are very very very very effective.

And organic.

Best part is they can be reeled in and squeezed to get the oil out.

USE APPROPRIATE AND LOCAL TECHNOLOGY!

Will in Seattle on May 11, 2010 at 11:56 AM