Hair mats and mushrooms help to clean San Francisco oil spill

I just came across an article in the San Francisco Chronicle on how volunteers near San Francisco Bay are using mats of human hair and oyster mushrooms to help clean up the 58,000 gallons of spilled heavy bunker fuel that's washing ashore.

The hair comes from Bay Area salons that are sent to Georgia to get woven into these mats. These mats work perfectly to clean up the globs of oil that are left in the bay. Once the mats are used, you can layer them with mushrooms (which will absorb the oil) and straw and in 12 weeks it turns into good soil.

Info on mushrooms and hazardous waste: greenmuseum.org/content/artist_content/ct_id-58__artist_id-33.html

Donate Hair: www.matteroftrust.org/programs/hairmatsinfo.html

Full Article: www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/14/MNPQTBLE4.DTL