So awesome - Who knew?

Clean- up crew with hair mats on the beach soaking up oil spills.




Who knew human hair had other uses besides making women look beautiful and men presentable?

Now you can use mats made out of hair to soak up oil spills on beaches!

Mats made from human hair slurp of the oily blobs at the slightest touch.

How cool is that? Imagine this free (almost) tool that people have around the world to clean up one of the worst disaster faced by an ecosystem?

My vacation last year included a visit to a small coastal village on the west coast. The village and the scenery was too beautiful for words. The only fly in the ointment so to speak was all the oil churned up by the ocean. The water was dark and mineral...kind that stuck to you and took ages to get off your skin. At first I thought that maybe we had s spill off the coast nearby. But the villagers claimed that this happened every year. What, the weather pattern causes the sea to churn up oil? Anyhow, hair mats could really soak up that gunk on the beach for sure. Imagine all the ladies with their looong beautiful tresses, donating their locks for a cause.