A few weeks ago, I watched a program that talked about a new technology for cleaning up oil spills. Hair, it seems has a natural affinity for oil, and a company figured out, that hair, woven into mats, can be dropped into an oil spill, and it soaks up oil 9 (like 12 fold), and any water that gets pulled in, rolls right off the mats like..water, when pulled out of the spill, but the oil...stays in the mats until they are wrung out. During the show they demonstrated it and it was impressive. The mats can be re-used about...
