Photo: Hair mat with oil, courtesy of Matter of Trust.
Picture a toupee in need of grooming that measures 1 ft x 1 ft x 1/3 inch-thick and you’ve got a good idea of what volunteers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area are using to clean up last week’s 58,000-gallon oil spill.
Some 2,000 of the 1/3-pound mats have been deployed by the San Francisco–based nonprofit Matter of Trust. Co-founder Lisa Gautier said by phone today that they have received calls from Russia and Mumbai, India, in recent days asking how to get, make, use and dispose of the mats.
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