Any Body's Guess! by Michael J. Rosen

Author:Michael J. Rosen [Rosen, Michael J.; Kassoy, Ben; Lawless, M. Sweeney]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4494-0027-9
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Published: 2010-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Grease Is

the Word!

Prevent weeds! Curb snail populations! Fertilize your garden! Prevent water from evaporating in your kiddie pool! Sop up that greasy spot in the garage under your car! Do all this—and more—with what? It’s something almost everyone gives up all the time.

The “Salon, It’s Been Good to Know Ya!" Answer

You—yeah, you, champ of the shampoo, commissioner of the conditioner, watching your stray hairs form a clump in the drain. (And what are you going to do with it—make a toupee for your Mr. Potato Head?) Wouldn’t you rather contribute your lost hair to an organization that could use it to blot up some of the 706 million gallons of oil that enter the planet’s oceans each year?*

An Alabama hair stylist started a program to collect hair clippings from salons and barber shops, and now more than 370,000 of them participate in the United States alone. The nonprofit, A Matter of Trust, collects about a pound per day from each member business to produce half-inch-thick, two-by three-foot mats of human hair. Though the perfect size for a welcome mat, this hair mass can hold 100 times its weight and slurp up oily blobs from oil spills, leaky cars, and salads you forget to order with dressing on the side. But wait, there’s more! It can be reused more than fifteen times!

Human hair is adsorbent; this is similar to absorbent, but the first b is turned around, and the adsorbent hair gathers liquid around it, just as it gathers the oil our bodies make. (Which is why your hair feels greasy after you skip a couple of showers.) In fact, you’re having your own slow-motion oil spill all the time, but your hair helps to keep it in check. Our hair works the same way with petroleum from a ship, and that’s why, when it comes to protecting the environment, the mat made of salon sweepings acts as a hairy godmother.

*Where do these millions of gallons come from? Oil changes (363 million), ship maintenance and container washing (137 million), air pollution (92 million), large spills (37 million), and offshore drilling (15 million). Additionally, oil naturally seeps up from the sea bottom, contributing another 62 million gallons.

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