MOP UP OIL SPILLS AT YOUR NEXT HAIRCUT

What's one of the best materials to soak up oil after messy, environmentally-disastrous spills?  Hair.  Human hair.

Just like when we neglect shampooing for a few days, we  (I anyway) end up with greasy tresses--that stuff is absorbent.

There are thousands of oil spills every year, not any as extensive as the Exxon Valdez in 1989 (which recently got wrapped up), but damaging nonetheless.

Matter of Trust partners with hair salons who sweep up their customers' brittle ends and send them to a facility that makes the hair into oil-soaking mats for clean-up efforts (creating green jobs while it's at it).

It's such a great idea, and the perfect opportunity to pass on to your stylist or barber next time you're in for a new do.  According to the organization, hair salons end up with about a pound of hair every day.  At over three hundred thousand across the country, that's a lot of lovely locks doing more than going to the landfill.

You can also sweep up your own and send it their way in an envelope.