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- mmaine, on 04/16/2009, -0/+16This is great thing to do. I hope that other hair salons will do the same.
Two years ago, I donated my hair, 10 inches, to "Locks of Love" where they used it to help make wigs for Cancer patients. I don't intend to ever let it grow that long again, so this would be a fatastic way to recycle it rather than just throwing it away. - eesquared, on 04/16/2009, -0/+13This is a good solution because oil spills are hairy problems...
- nickaster, on 04/16/2009, -0/+11So.... human hair is the best way to soak up oil spills? This I never thought of. Fascinating
- TrevorPace, on 04/16/2009, -0/+9Have you seen the amount of ***** people are able to stick in their hair?
- OUPablo, on 04/16/2009, -0/+9Can you call giving away something you would throw out donating?
- piggy, on 04/16/2009, -0/+7I don't want to be a negative nancy, but a lot of cancer organizations won't provide references to Locks of Love. I know the cancer org I worked for only provided info on wigs 4 kids. I'm not disparaging on the positive aspects of the charity, I just feel it's important to be informed and to have a choice of which organization one can donate his/her hair.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locks_of_Love#Critici ... - gametavern, on 04/16/2009, -0/+6Soul Glow!
- EpicSelekta, on 04/16/2009, -0/+6Isn't that what donating is?
- inactive, on 04/16/2009, -1/+6it would make it easier to attach a stick, and create a mop, with the scalp still intact.
- acmaurer, on 04/16/2009, -0/+5No kidding - why don't they (salons, etc) just stockpile hair in case of an emergency? Sounds funny, but if it works, it works!
- SystmBetatester, on 04/16/2009, -3/+8"cherokee hair tampons"
- inactive, on 04/16/2009, -0/+5"You've got oily hair"
- rdldr1, on 04/16/2009, -0/+4In China they used this hair to make a very cheap "soy sauce."
- inactive, on 04/16/2009, -1/+5Someone's gonna start scalping corpes.. News at 11
- tdogg241, on 04/16/2009, -0/+4The mane priority is cleanup.
- tdogg241, on 04/17/2009, -0/+4Locks of Love (and similar organizations) typically require hair to be at least 10 inches long and it has to be in good condition (not dyed, no split ends, etc) and it takes donations from several people to make a single wig. It sounds like these people are able to make use of just about anything but pubes and it goes toward helping entire habitats.
Locks of Love is not mutually exclusive to what these people are trying to do. You're just being a dick for dickery's sake. - guinpen, on 04/16/2009, -0/+4but why would they spend money synthetically creating all of this fiber to clean up oil spills when people are perfectly willing to donate tons of equivalent hair?
- smemily, on 04/16/2009, -0/+4But would it be free, and reduce waste, like the hair that's already being cut off human heads?
- disrupter, on 04/16/2009, -0/+4k
- inactive, on 04/16/2009, -1/+4"but only HEAD hair, please!" says its website.
hehehe :) - EpicSelekta, on 04/16/2009, -0/+3AND we can reuse the used hair mats too! Imagine for a second the smell of an oil-soaked hair mat on fire.
Instant biological weapon! - piggy, on 04/16/2009, -0/+3
- Iwantawii, on 04/16/2009, -0/+2the stale taste
of recycled hair - hushpuppy20, on 04/16/2009, -0/+2The sticks could be made of the bodies bones, thus reducing the skull-mops carbon footprint.
- hushpuppy20, on 04/16/2009, -0/+2Poor fish.
They bravely survive an oil spill only to be drowned in a wave of itchy barber hair. - gpsea, on 04/17/2009, -0/+1wonder what Scrappy Coco would feel about this :-D
- mattharvey716, on 04/16/2009, -0/+1head hair doesn't absorb oil it just clings too it making it easy to re-use the mats, actually.
- Zaeboes, on 04/16/2009, -0/+1This is actually a pretty old idea. I'm surprised so few people heard of this when they were cleaning up the Exxon Valdez spill.
- hendrixlives64, on 04/17/2009, -0/+1"Gee, Tom.. that mop just keeps going! You've been mopping up this grease for over an hour and you haven't wrung it once!"
"It's made of Amy Winehouse's hair."
"Oh." - cfuse, on 04/17/2009, -0/+1People donate sperm, I throw mine away.
- Yatti420, on 04/16/2009, -0/+1They should use pet hair.. My himalayan's hair is so dense..
- hushpuppy20, on 04/16/2009, -0/+1Kinda. Except with blood and organs.
- enantiodromia, on 04/16/2009, -0/+1"What's the most absorbent material on Earth?"
- tdogg241, on 04/16/2009, -0/+1I'm quite fond of my mane of pubic hair.
- guinpen, on 04/16/2009, -1/+2I want some jew-hair socks..
- inactive, on 04/16/2009, -2/+3The concept of "human recycling" is not new:
Hair was routinely shorn from prisoners, usually on arrival, at the death camps. The Nazi war machine used it to make army blankets and socks for U-boat crews. The Auschwitz museum on the site of the former death camp displays a store filled to the roof with inmates' hair originally intended for so-called "human recycling".
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c ... - charlie6969, on 04/16/2009, -1/+2This is TOO COOL!
- hushpuppy20, on 04/16/2009, -0/+1Now just wash the whole mess away with a good conditioner and you will have the most shining vibrant sea you have ever seen!
- alex7575, on 04/16/2009, -1/+1The porn industry should help too, and since the hair they'd provide is curly, it should double the soaking ability...
- salonsuzi, on 09/29/2009, -0/+0If only every hair salon in the USA were to do this it would be a great help to the environment
- inactive, on 04/23/2009, -0/+0it's chemically wrong but i like this...
- Oinkie, on 04/16/2009, -3/+2
- eyean540, on 04/16/2009, -2/+1well it seems to me that they can make a synthetic fibre just as good as hair nowadays eh?
- Nosnam2, on 04/17/2009, -2/+0Italians need not apply. You're already saturated.
- JasonCox, on 04/16/2009, -3/+1Cancer patients or oil spills... Children with cancer or saving ducks and fish... hrm... hard choice...
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