Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shampoo works because human hair soaks up oil. One nonprofit has turned this idea on its head, using hair mats to clean up oil ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - A non-profit organization uses an often discarded part of the body to clean up deadly oil spills: the hair on your head. No, they won't flip you over and use you like a mop. Matter of ...

At its workshop in San Francisco, Matter of Trust produces mats made from donated human hair and animal fur, to soak up oil spills. They have been used to clean up minor spills, like this one caused ...

Try answering this off the top of your head: What’s an abundant renewable resource that can spur growth in your garden and clear pollutants from bodies of water? The answer, according to a Bay Area ...

(CNN) - A nonprofit based in San Francisco is using human hair and animal fur to help clean up oil spills. A standard way to clean up oil on land is to use mats made from polypropylene, a ...

For the past few decades, Lisa Craig Gautier and her team at San Francisco-based nonprofit Matter of Trust have used mats made out of human and animal hair to help clean beaches and bodies of water.

Krista Zanderson used the Fourth of July weekend to exercise her independence by turning waste from her Mesa business into a good deed for the environment. Matter of Trust converts the pieces into ...

Deer rank among Northwestern gardeners' top four pests (along with slugs, bindweed and Himalayan blackberries). Each spring, I get many passionate questions about deer control. Over the years, I've ...