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Westmont, IL —
A hair salon in Westmont is helping out in the Gulf Coast oil spill relief effort by donating hair left behind that would normally be thrown out.
Tim Gianacopoulos, owner of Karma Salon and Spa, 15 N. Cass Ave., said the salon has been donating the hair for several weeks to an organization called Matter of Trust, an ecological public charity based in San Francisco that has been using human hair, as well as fur from sheep, llamas and other animals, to make booms to help soak up the oil.
“Hair naturally absorbs oil, and this organization is using that to help make the booms,” Gianacopoulos said. “We have been saving about one pound of hair a day, and we mail it off to them when we get about 10 pounds of it.”
The organization has already made more than 25 miles worth of boom as of June 14, and is looking for any kind of fiber that can be used in the process, according to the organization’s website.
One of the employees at Karma, Nicole Vujnovic, heard about the organization and passed it along to her co-workers as a way to help with the relief effort.
“It is just one of the easy ways that we can help out,” Vujnovic said.
Karma has already sent out several boxes to Matter of Trust and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future, Gianacopoulos said.
He said the important part is to get the word out to other hair salons that this is a very easy way that local businesses can help out in the relief effort.
“We want to get other salons involved in this as well,” he added. “Once we get the word out there, we should get a lot more salons that want to donate.”
A hair salon in Westmont is helping out in the Gulf Coast oil spill relief effort by donating hair left behind that would normally be thrown out.
Tim Gianacopoulos, owner of Karma Salon and Spa, 15 N. Cass Ave., said the salon has been donating the hair for several weeks to an organization called Matter of Trust, an ecological public charity based in San Francisco that has been using human hair, as well as fur from sheep, llamas and other animals, to make booms to help soak up the oil.
“Hair naturally absorbs oil, and this organization is using that to help make the booms,” Gianacopoulos said. “We have been saving about one pound of hair a day, and we mail it off to them when we get about 10 pounds of it.”
The organization has already made more than 25 miles worth of boom as of June 14, and is looking for any kind of fiber that can be used in the process, according to the organization’s website.
One of the employees at Karma, Nicole Vujnovic, heard about the organization and passed it along to her co-workers as a way to help with the relief effort.
“It is just one of the easy ways that we can help out,” Vujnovic said.
Karma has already sent out several boxes to Matter of Trust and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future, Gianacopoulos said.
He said the important part is to get the word out to other hair salons that this is a very easy way that local businesses can help out in the relief effort.
“We want to get other salons involved in this as well,” he added. “Once we get the word out there, we should get a lot more salons that want to donate.”
