Midsummer often prompts many of us to shear our locks and don cooler hairstyles to help us survive the heat. As I recently had my own coif chopped up and saw the heaps of hair collecting around the chair, I began to wonder if there aren’t some ways to reuse this particular resource. Here’s what I dug up…
- Donate your hair to Matter of Trust to help soak up the oil spill. It’s doubtful hair alone can halt this recent catastrophe, but considering that around 2600 spills happened last year, donating hair from your family (even pets) can be a great help. Hair is made into super absorbent mats or stuffed into old nylons, which are applied directly to spills or to sewer drains, to catch dumped oil before it gets into the water supply.
- Give it away to a child in need. Locks of love accepts lengths of hair 10 inches and over and turns it into wigs for disadvantaged children suffering from long term hair loss.
- Throw it out the window. Birds can use the hair to make nests. I recommend this sparingly, as it’s probably not a good idea to overwhelm the local environment with human hair.
- Keep deer and other pests away from your garden. Stuffing old nylons with human hair and placing them strategically around your yard will keep unwanted animals away humanely with human scent.
- Throw it in the compost bin. Give that soil some nutrients!
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