GULF OIL SPILL – HOW EVERYONE CAN HELP

Anyone and Everyone: salons, groomers, individuals can sign up to donate hair and fur clippings and nylons for our Oil Spill Booms. Our Excess Access program sign up is FREE, fast and helps us to coordinate the masses of donations.

CLICK HERE TO SIGN UP TO DONATE HAIR / FUR / NYLONS and get a delivery address emailed. Warehouses are small, so we’re not posting on the web, we’re orchestrating how much goes where all along the Coast. We all get it. We shampoo because hair collects oil!

Thousands of pounds of hair and nylons are coming in by UPS and FED EX from every State in the US and from Canada, Brazil, France, UK… Booms are being made all along the Gulf Coast near beaches and marshes. What a community feeling! More Info

Natural Surplus Programs
Our Natural Surplus programs concentrate on materials that are found abundantly in nature.

OIL SPILL HAIRBOOMS AND HAIRMATS
Here we look at fibers (hair, wool, fur, feathers…). Thousands of salons and groomers mail us hair clippings, swept up off their floors. The fibers are stuffed into nylons to make booms or woven into hair mats. We all know about shampooing our oily hair, but it took Phill McCrory, a stylist from Alabama, to realize that hair was an efficient and abundant material for collecting and containing petroleum spills. More

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Byron Cleary holds up oil soaked hairmat at San Francisco, Cosco Busan Oil Spill.
Help us close the loop by creating green collar jobs and composting / remediating oily hairmats and booms after spills.

Manmade Surplus Programs

You can visit our many Manmade Surplus programs that focus on reuse of manufactured surplus items and materials. Our largest program is ROSA (Reuse Of Society’s Abundance) and its online database Excess Access for matching nonprofit wish lists with business and household donations of second hand furniture, clothes, toys…

Eco-Educational Programs
Kindly browse our many Eco-Educational programs that focus on spreading awareness about sustainable and environmental solutions such as

EARTH FROM ABOVE-USA
Matter of Trust is the fiscal sponsor for Earth From Above-USA. This breathtaking collection of large-scale aerial  photography by world-renowned French environmentalist, Yann Arthus-Bertrand. A visual record for future generations, this outdoor public art exhibition presents awe-inspiring portraits of our planet, and a new perspective on the need for sustainable living. Free-to-the-public, day and night, experiential, and green by design, the 8-week exhibition features 150 images from around the globe captioned by sustainable development experts.

GREEN ENERGY MILLIONS (GEMs) CAMPAIGN
You can join in our Green Energy Millions (GEMs) campaign to create the tipping point. Our goal is 100,000,000 commitments to incorporate easy, green lifestyle benefits. Yep, 100 Million, and it’s OK if we get more! It’s FREE, it’s FAST and it’s FUN!