Usefulness of Discarded Hair 
snooz
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I wondered about whether human hair that appears in your hairbrush, your comb or even on your pillow at night would be useful in a way that would contribute to the environment through reuseable uses.
If so, there would potentially be, an absolutely massive and ongoing abundance of hair, for the duration of the exsistence of the human being.
As hair salons and barber shops spend half their day sweeping discarded hair and throwing it in the waste bin, why not throw it in a recycable and reusable bin. It then would be collected every few days and taken away for reusable purposes.
I had a bit of a look on the internet on this matter and was amazed to find just how useful hair actually is.
Hair is a great gatherer of oil and gathers oil from oil polluted air, oil polluted water which means it is able to aid substantially if an oil spill disaster were to happen.
It would be great to see large oil companies write up standing orders and instructions using the hair attributes of gathering and absorbing oil and have a fully equipped ready reaction team to be on standby, utilise the hair, for immediate action if an oil spill was to happen.
Here are the links I found in regards to the usefulness of discarded hair.
http://www.californiagreensolutions.com/cgi-bin/gt/tpl.h,content=1444
http://www.styleicons.com.au/2010/05/25/article/Recycled-hair-clippings-aid-o...
Regards,
Snooz
- Re: Usefulness of Discarded Hair spudlydoo
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This is a reply to # 1,699,764Snooz , you always amaze me with the ideas that you have :)
I had not heard about this idea before, and your post was very interesting.
I wonder if the oil collected on these hair mats and booms, could be extracted, and these hair mats used again and again.
Thanks for all your good thinking, please keep the info coming.
spud- Re: Usefulness of Discarded Hair snooz
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Hi Spud,
Ever since coming across your forum, my mind has been ticking away on ideas. You have made your forum a friendly and welcoming place and its great to be able to post away. Thankyou for providing very interesting information on various topics in reference to renewable and sustainable energy.
My friend and I were having a chat this afternoon and my friend said that we are all recyclable, we come from the earth and we will go back to the earth. Very true. Its great to think that apart of us, our hair, can be very useful on a broad scale to clean the environment in regards to oil spills.
I found a link in regards to reusing the hair mats and here is a small piece of it:
“It takes about a pound of recycled hair to make a hair mat that’s a foot square and half an inch thick,” said Gautier, A mat that thick soaks up about a quart of oil and can be wrung out and reused up to 100 times.
http://envirothink.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/oil-hair-mats-an-environmentally-...
Regards,
Snooz
- Re: Usefulness of Discarded Hair spudlydoo
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This is a reply to # 1,700,134Hair mats can be used up to 100 times, fantastic, now there's a renewable resource for ya!
When you think about how many people are getting hair cuts every day, this is a resource that could be very cost effective for cleaning up oil spills.
Great information as usual Snooz :)
spud- Re: Usefulness of Discarded Hair snooz
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MoreThis is a reply to # 1,700,140I agree Spud, it would be very cost effective.
If the demand for this resource became enormous, just like the demand of oil is, would hair salons and barbers start charging a price for the sale of hair?
Would the individual customer who is getting the haircut, charge the hairdresser a certain fee for their hair?
Would hairdresses and barbers charge the oil companies for the hair?
Interesting stuff.
Snooz- Re: Usefulness of Discarded Hair spudlydoo
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This is a reply to # 1,700,141You raise some good questions Snooz, wouldn't that be something, if people could get paid for their hair :)
When I was in university, I was very poor, and to pay for my text books one year, I actually sold my very long hair, to a wig maker, so selling hair could be a great way for those that are in need of a bit of cash, to get paid by oil companies for something that keeps growing anyway.
spud- Re: Usefulness of Discarded Hair snooz
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This is a reply to # 1,700,144That would be great to get paid for your hair, a growing commodity, literally.
Learning about this definately has changed my thinking about hair and not to simply take it for granted, especially when it can contribute to cleaning the environment and contribute to helping those in need for a bit of extra cash by being paid for the purchase of their hair.
Snooz- Re: Usefulness of Discarded Hair spudlydoo
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This is a reply to # 1,700,146lol, eventually all of our bodies will be recycled into useful things, after all my transplant-able bits are taken, the rest of me can go to fertilize something else :)
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