A non-profit out of San Francisco, California, is cleaning up oil spills using the naturally adsorbent properties of human ... matted in oil. McCrory tested his theory at home with 5lbs of hair ...

The initiative is led by Dung Dung - a Belgian non-profit company and the Hair Recycle project feeds locks and tresses into a machine that turns them into matted squares that can be used to absorb ...

These matted squares can be used to absorb oil and ... with pollution problems because of flooding. Aside from that, human hair can also be transformed into bio-composite bags or to clean up ...