ya but were would they get all this hair from EVery Barber shop in the world to make a reserve supply?

How and where can I donate my hair?

Reminds me of telsa.

@@matthewallen2273 how

@@cristal6636 I think they meant tesla the person not the company

@@matthewallen2273 tesla the company is the exact opposite of this even though they make electric cars ,i hope ur talking about nikola tesla

Nikolai Tesla! The man!

Innovation?

its not the same in sea water ....

@Calix still took the oil there

@@breakingoutin2212 Obviously 🙄 it literally says in the video “to the MASSES” no need to point it out

It makes sense fur and hair must hold oils from the skin, becouse of this we shampoo and clean our hair

Under the sea. Sebastian must be hurting right now

Gee... how much wit and time did you spend coming up with that pun? Congratulations, very witty. Clap, clap.

This made me soo mad those fuckin companies SUCK and don't gaf about ppl or the environment.

Yeah it sucks thst like everything else it's just shifting the problem, but it's the intention that matters

They'd rather use chemicals to make the oil sink than the hair mats, what!

Awesome,i came to know after reading this

It's disgusting that they allow any ship to stick as much flammable dangerous oil on it as it can take. And we don't even know where the majority of that oil is going cause it sure isn't going to our homes and I believe not even to our cars. Most it's probably stock pilled somewhere safe for the rich to have during a heavy oil shortage when the price will rise like hell

booms*

Oil is consumed by naturally occurring microbes that normally subsist on stuff like whale falls and natural oil seeps. Instead of a bunch of oil droplets getting digested, you have a giant piece of oil-soaked trash sinking to the bottom (hopefully that rather than floating at a thermo/halocline).

The problem is that oil floats. If your boom sinks it's can not absorb any oil, and it's not a boom anymore. If you install a mile of boom to protect a wetland it's a complete waste of time if it simply sinks.

literally the fact that the synthetic booms were a petroleum product probably the oil companies were maufacturing them and selling them lmfao

Exactly

@@sadface So are your clothes, and your car, and the paint on your walls, and the packages that your food comes in, and...

Hair can also be used to compost/mulch, I'm surprised by the lack of knowledge...even my brother never throws away hair because it's so beneficial to plant life, and it takes 10 years at least, up to 1000 years to decompose in a landfill :/

@@samaraisnt yes like it's dry and organic and nicely complementing food waste

@@samaraisnt well is not something common that people would talk about.

@Don K wow! Did her clients know that????

@Don K Did she get their consent?

Nice idea 💡 👌

Exactly

Mushrooms is a fascinating idea, to eat the oil hair!

you can't stop oil all together, you to go back to the stone age? No phone, no tech, no nothing

How are mushrooms going to be used in the ocean?

Thabk you! How much would you need to donate, when they open back up again? Does it matter how little or much?

Can I ask for their website pleasee

That IS fantastic news. Thanks for the share!

@@ultraviolet9677 I will look for it. I started bagging up some but if they don't need donations for a long time, I can compost what I have for now.

Damn, Ive been growing my hair for 7 years and the pandemic put a wrench in my plan to donate to cancer, seems like it may be a pointless effort at this point.

in the end of the day its all about money....

@@joylucio4430 wait they do that? make the mess even more un-cleanable, just to be fined less? ..I hope they get fined for such bs as well

Didn't you all watch the video through the end? Hair mats like that will absorb water and it will sink with oil in it. If it sink, how the hell they can quantify the spilled oil anyway?

@@rifqyfadhilahrahman2498 Tie the mats to a rope? Pull it back up?

@@ryanbrown982 You depicted it like the oil spilled in the scale of a fish pond. In the massive scale, there is always technical limitation. Furthermore, the oil spill usually happened far away from shore. It adds more technical limitation. There is always reason why experts didn't use this method. They are not stupid, people like you are the one make it too simple without knowing anything.

Just a thought on that... couldn't someone else adopt this project, and then just put their own patent on it? Don't see what would stop them.

@@smoothie9931 right. You can't say you're the only one person that can use hair for cleaning up spills. I just think majority of people don't understand patents and don't get more often than not it's some special machine they have that gets the patent and very uncommon for products themselves to be protected

@@geesegoose6174 Okay... build a machine that can sort the hair, clean it, and matt it in a fraction of the time, and then patent that. Pretty much removing all other options, like this one that is charitable by nature.

@@smoothie9931 I wasn't trying to be rude, I do think there's a lot of ways to patenting this and think she should pursue it. I just see a lot of people saying "patent it" and you can't just patent a mat of hair...

@@geesegoose6174 oh sorry ;_; I wasn't trying to be rude either

It’s still not effective

@@Carpe_Diem_XCIII How is it not effective? lol

@@Carpe_Diem_XCIII but its working? Explain your point, Florida Man

@@SuWoopSparrow I'm guessing probably, mass produce as the key word.

if we can extract hair from water sewage from bath, then it could be cyclical, not just "producing more" for the sake or recycle etc.

Aww. And they’re so smart with this idea

No. They would absorb water, and sink. Which means they're no longer absorbing oil, because oil floats. If you install a mile of boom to protect a wetland it's a complete waste of time if it simply sinks.

@@c6q3a24 I think they mean that one of the currently used techniques to clean up oil spills is to spray them with dispersants, which cause the oil to sink to the bottom of the sea. So it's not like the hair mats sinking is actually a big problem, since one of our currently-used techniques does the same thing. Except the dispersants are worse because the oil is free-floating, so it can still cause harm to marine wildlife in a very large area. The mats would keep the oil locked in, so while they might still harm some organisms like bottom feeders who might try to nibble on them, the negative impact would be smaller and would be less widespread.

@@raerohan4241 They literally show hair booms (the tube shaped items), and poly propylene booms in use - and have an independent third party explain how the hair booms were vastly inferior. At the end of the day oil spills are much worse for air breathing animals than they are for purely aquatic animals, so sinking the oil is the lesser of two evils. Oil is not a completely foreign substance - there are lots of oil seeps and tar pits on land, and also in the ocean.

@@c6q3a24 "independent study" let's find out who paid for the independent study...

@@c6q3a24 they also explained that they are moving to hair mats rather than the booms because of the surface tension so it won't sink..

Agreed. “And have you tried this? Oh yeah!”

She's not bonkers....she's aware of ancient knowledge. She's sharing how wool was originally discovered many thousands of years ago. A herder put some sheep hair in their shoe and the agitation, heat, and moisture caused the hair to turn to a piece of wool. We need people to deprogram themselves and get to work cleaning up our messes. You can be like her - pick a project and get to work!

@@ashtree3006 The hair did not ‘turn into wool’ it was felted (or matted)

@@heatherlochrie Personally I do this with dog and cat hair. Have made a few purses. I want to make a sweater out of Samoyed.

@@SobrietyandSolace I worded it that way for others. It's so cool what we can do with wool!

This is why I just cut my hair myself…. You never know what people do with your hair.

@@zerotodona1495 Ikr... These comments and this video is making me glad that my hair isn't being stolen and distributed against my knowledge because I cut it myself.

@@zerotodona1495 all of our clients know haha it isn't a secret, they choose to book with us with the knowledge of us recycling their hair

@@milalovesmae hair thief

@@-_.-._- what are you gunna do with your cut hair? You think your use is more important??

I shed so much 😭 can we donate regular shedded hair?

@@Danny-be1ex they said they receive animal shedded hair, so yes lol

What's wrong with doing something for her bank balance? There is a cost to living. It's not free.

@@blaqueknight everyone is entitled to earn a living but she seems as though she's more concerned about the planet than how much she's going to earn from it. Big companies only look at the bottom line, do whatever is going to turn the biggest profit no matter what it does to the environment.

@@laernulienlaernulienlaernu8953 ok I understand you

Right? My immediate thought was to hook the hair up to buoys or set them in nets that are connected to floaters. What’s am I missing? It’s got be $$…

@@NikkiJabs You're right. Since they're fined on how much oil was spilled, and these mats would allow them to know pretty accurately how much was spilled...

@@argent_ice248 So it might be that the oil companies have a hand in pushing the alternatives to hair.

@@argent_ice248 so what are they gonna do when they get hit with a super gigantic fine for burning oil soaked hair mats?

@@NikkiJabs No, that means it might be that bad policy is why. If it truly is the fines that made them not want to try this, then that means the fines should either be calculated differently, be scaled down, or not exist if they otherwise would have used this product. After all, it's a pr nightmare for any company not to clean it up, so the fines may not really need to exist.

>great innovations meanwhile some grand-grand-grand-grand...-grand ascensor using wool rag to clean his cave

We need more genius people to notice even the smallest simplest of things can help the world. Bless them.

Anyone who's been to any of the Mediterranean countries can see how much grease that hair can mop up.

@@sw3783 No it wasn't. People have been recycling for centuries. We used to have rag and bone men who will buy used junk and do just that.

Where we gonna dump the soaked up oil?

In the video small packets of hair are donated. You could argue the environmental impact from the transporation and packaging would be greater than the benefit it could provide

@@luka3174 Then, possibly, they should work out some sort of reusable packaging, or something more environmentally friendly in order to get the full benefit

@@juliasimmons1562 All teenage daydreams not grounded in reality. The reality is nearly everything that is industrialized requires oil to move. The world does not move an inch without petrol. Your solar panels require oil to mine the resources, they require oil to be manufactured, they require oil to be transported. Change "solar panel" to "windmills" and its the same equation. The reality is while these things sound cool, their effectiveness is probably less than a drop in the ocean, no pun intended. The same applies here.

@@TheBanjoShowOfficial Well, yeah, that’s obvious. But even a drop in the ocean is something. Maybe in the future the world will be burned to the ground. Maybe we’ll have better ways of doing things. The first one is more likely, but we can always hope for the latter. I’m not stupid, I know that nothing is entirely clean for the earth.

@@juliasimmons1562 Is this COOL or DROOL? I think IT'S POOP and PEE and that he's a FOOL and MORAN!!!

Except now anyone can file a patent for it and order them to cease and desist. They were better off making it a Creative Commons license.

@@therealteal620 agreed or renew the patent and just let anyone make em if they’d like

If your so overwhelmed with all this rubbish why don't you shave your head and make a mat instead of grooming yourself for subjective attractiveness?

What they do/make with the hairs ??

​@@section7173 You're* If you're going to be a dick, you better at least be right...

What's better is he can partner up with a local barber shop so that they don't have to trouble themselves with hait disposal!

Good thing hair will rot eventually

Unkle ? A word for uncle's ankle?

@@ssaj22 all knowing, not an asshole? a phrase for you?

@@erikawwad7653 not familiar. But I'm an expert on recognizability and unrecognizable.

Whenever I clean a hairbrush I always take the hair and leave it outside for birds to use as nesting material

o wow these companies should ask hair dressers for the scrap and give them money for it

I've been saying this for years! We probably throw away 150lbs of hair/ month!

maybe just ask your boss to start recycling the hair in your salon ... you sound like it has to be some outside force that come in and help you to do a simpel inexpensive change.. its just trash sorting ✌

Pet dressers too.

Lol hair has a different buoyancy.

The hair mats probably didn't sink all the way to the floor due to buoyancy.

I suppose companies who produce the chemicals, did not like the idea.

🤯

Collecting hair isn’t as profitable as using more oil

Jesus Christ is Lord. it is all True. Read the Bible and do what it says. Please take your salvation seriously.

@@jamesmayle3787 Allah is Lord. it is all True. Read the Quran and do what it says. Please take your salvation seriously.

@@niBBunn the God of Abraham is not in Islam. Look at its beginning. The God of Abraham said who his will followed. It goes Abraham to Issac then Jacob, and that path leads you to Jesus Christ. Islam steams from the path of Ishmael, Abraham's illegitimate son, whom God explicitly stated did not have his will. Everything after this point in Islam is to excuse disobeying God's direct order. God laid out a direct path, and Islam stepped off it at the very first opportunity. They cannot claim the God of Abraham. Their God is the devil in disguise. Jesus Christ is Lord.

@@jamesmayle3787 what does this have to do with anything

What thyroid issue?

Personally I find it disgusting that Big Oil even exists anymore. We've had so many alternative fuels since the industrial revolution.

It’s not that simple it will take a long time to replace and restructure companies and industries that rely on oil. And also you have to deal with other countries and nations.

@@nomus1172 yeah, I know it would take ages. But that's the thing, we should have started making that transition a long time ago.

@@maxburrill6192 though solar power Han only go so far and nuclear power is getting more common. Though gasoline is used to power lots of vehicles. Electric cars are very new Plus certain countries just aren’t rich enough to get clean power.

​@@nomus1172 electric cars are over 140 years old bro what are you talking about new?

I like that!

I was thinking why not use mold to break down the fibers to release the oil again? it looks fungi friendly

@@_Circus_Clapped_ maybe?

It's contaminated.

Contaminated fuel sources can't burn in the highest efficiency generators, but anything that creates heat can be burned in a way that allows some energy to be reclaimed. Clean incineration should always be paired with heat or power generation. Steam or Stirling Engine are good at converting unreliable heat sources to usable energy.

Agree!

Earth is flat. Oil is useless. Now I'm the hero

Thank you!

@@resonantfreaq try better

@@nothere_cora there is g r a phine oxide in those j a b s. You're so welcome

Also, Society: "We want everything recycled no matter the costs." Society: " How dare you try build a recycling center in my area, we don't want that type of thing here!"

It actually depends on the porosity of the hair bc hair also absorbs water

Germany did in 1940-45...

they've been doing this for decades, so you have reason to be confused at the idea that this is new

@@bonheur_d_etre_libre they also used the ashes as fertilizer

Why do idiots who learn something new think it's new? Plenty of tech we use and even depend on existed before fricking Christ. Like the Pulleys, Cement, Language, Numbers, Algebra and Astrology.

They do get fines but thats all because the world cant really go without oil at this stage.

alright mrs oil user

I think they do get fine but still they make more profit compare to the fine

An actual not for profit? That's really in it for the environmental impact instead of the profit margin? I thought this was just fantasy

@@Howard-bc7sl you can criticize a society but still partake in one

burning hair isn't a better alternative to sticking plastic in landfill, it'll produce a lot of sulphuric gases. Maybe we should look at bioplastics first, not hair

check out how fungus cleans oil spills

@@Gliccit i’m certain that people have tried to look into bioplastics plenty. Being able to use oil soaked hair as an alternative to other fuel sources that we’re going to burn anyways no matter what is much more renewable.

@@maddiesmenagerie8853 we could just toss the hair in landfill like we usually do, which is a much better outcome

@@Gliccit fair enough.

Yes, I remember this too. Many donated their hair that time.

I'm just glad the Philippines was willing to be eco friendly to clean after that oil spill. Other countries could have done something similar it makes me sad they don't do something like this as often..

I remembered this

I don't remember this because I was 1 year old at that time

@@bmona7550 grow up dude no one cares about your eco friendly nonsense they had a issue and worked together as a group to solve it it was there only option and it worked so stop being ignorant not everyone is as brainwashed as you

could even have a cord with waterbottles or something underneath keeping it afloat if it still sinks

like a trawler

Nah, oil-eating bacteria will be far more effective because of their vast number. We saw how fast they ate that BP oil spill up.

@@bibbayeet8007 glad theres some sort of alternative

Isn't it biodegradable, maybe bury it?

and can be easily viralised during a crysis

they didnt even use it

@@Wayne_R because it's "dificult to recover" unlike the oil on the bothem of the ocean... the company probably judged that chemicals was cheaper. no matter what humans flock to money

its not the same in sea water ....

Did we not just watch the same video, the long haired scientist type explained why it isn't used in ocean spills. I also looked up the patent date of filling, the "shared idea" has only been shared for a year, so the irony of this whole thing baffles me.

Was originally a male hairdresser here in Australia he was on the news back in the 90s these people are just glory seekers

@@mathewparr1176 the farther the information spreads the better, no matter how it happens. And it’s being put to use, so, who cares if they are “glory seekers” or not?

@@mathewparr1176 I mean it says dude in the US did it in 89. You say you heard about it in the 90s, how do you know the Australian wasn’t copying? Either way its a good idea regardless and very well could of been a very old idea, either copied or re-realized. The fact that this company is non-profit and open source doesn’t sound much like “glory seeking“ though..

Yoo funny seeing u here

@@zgart Haha what are you doing here?! Maybe i'm spending too much time on the internet

Invasive species might be an issue, testing that is important.

@@fionafiona1146 that's what I mean it's not an invasive fungus it already exists all over earth. I watched the documentary about fungus and mushrooms very interesting.

You’re correct! Certain strains of oyster mushrooms, like aspergillus, have been found to be able to “eat” plastic, petroleum, and even nuclear waste. In regards to petroleum, mycelium (mushroom “roots” essentially) eats the oil, grows mushrooms on it, and the mushrooms thrive and produce spores. The spores attract birds and insects, who then bring seeds and such from land and, long story short, island ecosystems begin to grow on the oil spill. You should look up Paul Stamets’ Ted talk. The reason this isn’t being used really at all is because mycology is a fairly new branch of science, and is severely underfunded. The only people really studying this are citizen scientists who don’t have the laboratories and equipment needed to get this ball rolling on a larger scale. The government won’t fund these studies because fungi doesn’t decompose quickly, and because decomposition time varies between species. I find this ridiculous, as oysters have been found to begin to degrade plastic (which can take decades or even centuries to decompose) within thirty days. Sorry for the novel, I’m just passionate about this. Oyster mycelium could be the eco-friendly way to clean up our oceans and landfills. I think you pose a very interesting thought too. We could use hair to suck up the oil quickly and remove it from harming more marine life, and then use fungi to break that oil down and get rid of it. Lastly, yes, oysters are very common and actually one of the easiest mushrooms to grow, which makes it all the more enticing to start researching this more.

@@savannai9168 exactly thanks for explaining in detail 😁👍

@@savannai9168 Again, bad government policy is the culprit. I heard people also say BP decided not to use the hair mats possibly because apparently oils spills are fined per the amount of oil spilt, so dispersants make it harder to calculate. If that's truly why bp didn't use the hair mats, then that means either the fines are too high and need to be scaled down, they need to be calculated differently, or they shouldn't exist if the company otherwise would have chosen to use the hair mats. After all, it's a pr nightmare for them not to cleanup their mess, so they would do it anyway. Remember a BP exec reached out to her, not the other way around, and the executives are rewarded for things like saving the company's reputation. This means they had every natural reason, absent the government, to use the best solution.

There is... if they clean it up less efficiently and collect less oil they get fined for spilling ""less"" oil

I just wish we could buy these mats, it would fit very well on my house porch...

@@Reth_Hard but there's no oil spilling in your house is it?

@@danthanh98 there is oil spill in my house every few hours. I need hair hair hair. NOWWWW

Ikr? I’d be so happy for my hair to go into something like this It sounds weird, but I’d be happy because it helps the environment

Probably buried. Should be biodegradable

@Goosa Poosa don't ya just love the smell of burnt hair

@@mismis3153 but won't the oil mix with the water and get back to some ocean/river, if those mattress would be burnt?

@@zythe9876 trash also doesn't smell nice and are still burnt. Actually, if it was a common occurance to clean oceans like that, would it be suitable to use it instead of oil/coal/gas to make energy/warmth?

@@ritaerror7829 god there has to be something wrong with you. i was just saying that it probably would smell bad and you're assuming that i thought that hair wouldn't be a good alternative at all.

Sawdust is used for exactly that purpose in industrial applications.

The byproduct from oil collection by this wood powder method would probably even be pretty useful It would be kind of a sludgier version of coal

they teach this and have been using this in the auto industry for years, nonetheless still good idea.

@@StatesMusic should be applied in oil spill cleanup if it's well known

@@IMTHEREALTAVI not sure how youd go about pouring sawdust on the ocean and recollecting it, oil cleanups are actually being delayed by having employees drive through the spill using boats and further spreading/breaking it down making it harder to clean up. Many videos regarding this, I don’t think oil will be cleaned up anytime soon, doesnt seem to be some of their intentions.

Yes I was so sad to find out they dont actually donate the hair to cancer patients, but SELL them it's so evil but ig that's the hair industry :(

Hair longer than shoulder length irritates me immensely so I gave up on wanting to pursue the Lara Croft braid, but I'm so happy someone out there is doing it! ♥ Good luck with that, and also with finding a legitimate place to donate to if you do follow through with that as well! :)

*companies *rarely 😉

the problem with international waters is that a single country can't just implement it. moreover, lobbyists will stop at no cost to prevent that from happening

Regulators probably get paid off to allow it

2 years ago? im sorry but the in the video it says that they got the idea in 1999

@@iii9591 i mean i got idea without seeing anywhere (on my own while applying oil in my hair), then i researched and came to know people got this idea earlier than me 😂

I work in the greater recycling industry and we have a huge bra inde ad NIMBY problem that is not going to ever go away as long as we have the idiotic authoritarian fear-mongering nut job political left fake feel-good agendas in play. Everyone is all for recycling and positive reuse, UNTIL you want to set up facilities to do the actual work legally and under safe controlled condtions. Then it's a total bra inde ad eco tar d zombie world, where everyone thinks they know more about what you do than you do as the proven expert trying to fix the actual problem, and insane impossible what-ifs built on nothing real are the only thing they want to discuss and you will never get approval until you have addressed them, which is impossible because they are not even based in reality.

Couldn't agree more

@NewmexicanMe she's helping to push it so she's still very good

Jesus Christ is Lord. it is all True. Read the Bible and do what it says. Please take your salvation seriously.

@@jamesmayle3787 i’m gay lol

Technology like this, shes been doing it since 2000, thats 22 years.

@@edentranlol wait really wow i might as well fall for ya UwU.

@@jamesmayle3787 stop

Perhaps if the hair decomposes, the oil would rise to the surface?

@@jkxss sure, but the sea is constantly moving, so the dispersants do...what eventually?

@@bowdencable7094 how does your comment have anything to do with what I said? Do you think that the sea is constantly mixing all the way from the ocean floor so that eventually the hair mats will rise to the surface? Your comment makes no sense at all.

Yeah I didn't understand that either. Maybe they decided it was better to sink them after they'd already decided to use the plastic ones? Still sounds silly though..

Im just guessing here, but I would think the hairmats sinking with the oil quite majorly interrupts the local ecosystem with a lack of light and covering parts of the ocean floor and the noncovered crude oil in a more tangible way than the very small bubbles of oil and solvent (think dish soap in large scale) would, despite the chemical's impact on nature. The usage of hairmats would also need a more hands on approach than simply adding the chemicals into the water and could be used in a wider virarity than the pickup would need. When possible the alternative of using a plastic derivative was used, to make as small impact on the envoirment as possible and avoid sinking and littering the ocean floor with hair that's foreign the ecosystem. I love the idea and how it may be implemented but it seems to be a bit further into the future to actually use them in the enviorment on a large scale, aa this would take special mashines that are not profitable or even possible to produce at the moment due to the small scale of operation and the fact that all mats dont have the same scale, making process of picking the mats up when they start to sink difficult.

Gf gym

Not when you consider these petroleum companies likely make plastic they use, and they dont have to pay distribution. I appreciate you looking into this, but I'm quite sure your project was exactly representative.

I'm just sitting here thinking about the volume of floof my huskies produce... guess where their hair is gonna go now

Adding some air baloons or balls might solve the problem easly.

The NOAA guy didnt say that the NOAA considered it a net environmental benefit, he said the companies/ they claimed it was less bad than washing on shorelines and hence a 'net benefit'. He didnt seem to agree with it. Also he was only comparing the hair mats to the poly mats. Its a totally different clip from what he was saying about the companies claiming net benefit.

@@ddawg3230 Yes, I understand he wasn't endorsing the idea of chemically sinking the oil. However, given that they would have had operational authority I would think the less of two evils would be preferred. The oil will still be there, waiting to leech into the water, but with the hair mats at least they're natural and not just adding more chemicals to persist in the environment

@@Dysiode It sounds like they use poly mats where they operate themselves, and have an issue with banning companies from using the chemical method. From that little snippet we saw, it just seemed like he was advocating for poly mats instead of either hair mats or chemical spray.

Oil is surprisingly well re-absorbed - it is a natural product, after all.

The amount of resources required to ship all of this hair around the globe does have an impact as well. The scientist also said that hair soaks up water and causes it to sink with the oil. This has been tried in an actual oil.spill and it didn't work out. They used plastic that already existed to clean it up. Most products we use are made of plastic. If you want to actually impose change, be conscious of the products you buy and how they are made, from start to finish. This includes how the minerals are mined, what types of machines are used. You'll find oil is used everywhere and it's going to take more than human hair to change our economy and lifestyle across the planet to move us away from using oil for literally everything. It's been 50 years since plastic really started taking off, it didn't just happen over night. Edit: think about how oil has been a major part of your life. If it never existed life would not have been as easy or cost effective for parents to have kids. Many young people of today may not have even been born if it weren't for how oil changed the lives of parents. Greta Thunberg is from Norway and her entire existence was made possible because Norway was one of the biggest oil nations on the planet. So don't blame the adults for this mess, were all responsible for it and if you don't think you are, look at what you are holding in your hand right now... Yep, OIL.

@@TBonerton thank you for shedding light on this issue, I didn't actually thought that far out 😲 I have always been very environmentally conscious and i do think you're correct in emphasizing the importance of reducing, as i do also think that this should be prioritized before reusing and recycling, so its great to meet another mind who think alike and i hope you continue educating others out there! :D

@@ode8119 I grew up in the 80s and 90s when recycling was a pipe dream. Reduce, reuse, recycle was the mantra we heard in TV ads, but it was just starting out. Recycling somehow took over, but no one reduced or reused. If anything we started using more because things can be "recycled". Then we find out that "recycling" was just shipping more crap across the planet to less fortunate countries and they essentially just polluted the environment further by burning a lot of it or dumping it in the water. Now we are finding out that recycling is a false pretense, but it's almost too late. We do need to reduce and reuse, but I get laughed at when I bring food in an old sour cream container instead of a brand new SnapLok. Too many people are worried about getting rich off crypto currency, which is the biggest waste of energy and most of it is generated by China who still use coal. There is no such thing as green energy when you factor in all the minerals that are required. PS, help spread the word. Politicians are forcing a green energy transition which forces us to use more rare minerals and pollute the planet even more. It's all a politicians dream with very little science to back it up.

@@TBonerton furreals! the possibility of recycling shouldn't be an excuse for us to justify our indulgence in overconsumption but this is exactly what many are doing, unfortunately 😞

What’s wrong with BP??

Who's we?

Yes but they were discussing how anyone can use this on their shore-lines, and this will stop the argument of using of dispersants. The dispersants were used because they felt the public impact of seeing oil spillage on shore was more harmful than having the oil in the bottom of the ocean. If there was hair-bags on the shores of some beaches, it would catch a lot more oil than what got buried away at reefs. There is still an environmental impact in making those industrial cleanup equipment, the making of the hair-mats is very rudimentary, easy but not its not as durable or reusable, and there is still a concern in how to get rid of the used hairs in a eco-friendly matter. Also the hair will sink to the bottom of the sea after catching enough oil, so throwing them around aimlessly is also not a solution.

There's also a lot of oil spill prevention systems available that would've stopped this from happening.

deepwater wasn't an accident, it was fully on the management. it was totally foreseeable and preventable.

Thats what corporations do, sweep it under the rug and bribe politicians not to be held responsible.

@@nolives so why do they prefer the non-sinking polypropylene instead of the sinking human hair?

@@Simonstoster because they profit from the cleanup selling the cleanups in a lot of cases. Lots of big industry is just a racket and theres plenty of examples.

@@nolives but the sinking hair would be gone and the floating polypropylene has to be disposed of, which is much more expensive. Still, they prefer the later. Why?

@@Simonstoster Because oil floats - so you also need your boom to float. Otherwise it will collect no oil.

I know the little seal broke my heart

Everyone at the time was so angry with BP including myself. Now I'm just angry at human beings in general for failing to recognize how much we individually contribute to these types or problems. If you drive a car, or use any product derived from petroleum- you're part of the problem. And that makes us all culpable. We're all responsible.

my dad did something similar with his (husky) dogs fur after brushing

Warning! That can kill birds! Human hair is so strong and sharp it can trap birds if wrapped around them. Id recommend searching a video on it. Im sure you didnt know that when doing it but please be aware.

@@why_on_earth1100 exactly, same with hair from horses‘ manes and tails and even long dog hair or long-staple sheep wool. Only very short hair is harmless and helpful.

@@why_on_earth1100 then they shouldn't grab it, my hair is gonna get in the environment naturally. If birds can't determine what nesting materials are suitable that's their problem and they should adapt.

@@thugpug4392 Or, knowing that it’s bad, you can revise your behavior to make sure it won’t do harm. If you even were doing this in the first place (actively putting specifically long hair out to be taken). It’s not like birds have microscopes to be able to examine the differences between human hairs and other fibers that might be safer to use. Nor do they have many ways to feel things with a general cursory degree of detail like we can with our fingers. Even if they could ‘adapt’, it’s unlikely to happen for a very long time through evolution, and it wouldn’t be very likely in the first place unless vast numbers of people did put the birds in this situation where they need to evolve to survive. It’s probably sparse enough of an occurrence that it won’t affect a terribly significant number of birds negatively.

I love that.

That's fantastic! I own a pet grooming salon, and I looked into donating our fur clippings, but the shipping costs were unfortunately much too prohibitive. I'd love to find an alternative to adding bags of hair to the landfills every week!