notes: Link to Hair/Fur Collection instructions: http://www.matteroftrust.org/programs/hairmatsinfo.html http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2010/06/10/local_salons_join_effort_to_collect_hair_and_fur_for_oil_cleanup/ Boston Globe Article By Megan McKee Globe Correspondent / June 10, 2010 Hair salons, pet groomers, and veterinarians in Waltham, Lexington, Acton, and Sherborn have joined a nationwide effort to collect hair and fur clippings for use in natural-fiber oil booms, which are being assembled by hundreds of volunteers in an effort to stem the environmental damage from the massive British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. “People are surprised about the concept,’’ said Marlene Maffei-Ryan, owner of the As You Like It Hair Salon in Acton. However, she said, once people understand the idea, they’re excited about it. Some clients have even had more hair cut off than they originally intended after hearing where the clippings were headed, she said. “It’s been great. We don’t do anything with the hair anyhow. We bag it and trash it . . . It’s a good cause and it’s easy work for us,’’ she said. The effort, which has brought in 570 businesses across Massachusetts, is being mounted by the group Matter of Trust on a website devoted to reducing the carbon imprint of dogs. The group is collecting clippings from salons, groomers, alpaca and llama farmers, individuals, veterinarians, and pet owners. The organization’s president, Lisa Craig Gautier, said she is receiving thousands of e-mails per day, and most are from those wishing to donate. The organization sends out e-mails with addresses of warehouses where the donors should send clippings. Once there, volunteers stuff them into nylon stockings and tie off the ends. Then they’re ready for deployment. Craig Gauthier said BP has decided not to use natural-fiber booms in its cleanup effort but rather rely on synthetic booms. But harbormasters in Florida have announced they will use the booms, Craig Gauthier said, and Matter of Trust is hoping the response to its campaign will help change the BP approach. The organization has about 10 miles of boom ready to go. “We don’t have anything against synthetic boom, but you have to drill oil to make it,’’ said Craig Gautier. “This is a renewable resource that we’re diverting from a landfill.’’ Locally, Waltham’s Veterinary and Emergency Center of New England is one of the entities participating in the effort. “We’re always shaving areas’’ on their animal patients for medical procedures, said Sharon Gately, spokeswoman for the center, “and it usually just goes to waste. I just thought it was such a good idea.’’ Gately said the Waltham animal hospital also will have a bin out front to collect nylons; Craig Gautier said Hooters just donated 100,000 pairs. At Lexington’s Blue salon, desk manager Michael Surette said the salon has already made four shipments thanks to the trashbag-size amount of clippings that are disposed of daily. A neighbor of the salon has volunteered to collect and mail the bags of donated hair. In Sherborn, Serena’s Groom Room is doing warm-weather shave-downs for pets, which means it is an opportune time to participate in the program, said owner Serena Keating. “I think this is a really cool way for us being able to help a really bad situation,’’ said Keating. “This is a little more global for us. . . It’s something indirectly all of my customers have done a lot to help.’’ In the meantime, Matter of Trust is using social media websites to round up volunteers in places like Alabama and Florida to stuff pantyhose with clippings, and the group is urging people to contact the government to press for the booms to be used. The organization was founded in 1998 by Craig Gautier and her husband, Patrice Oliver Gautier, an executive at Apple Inc., and is involved in multiple efforts to promote the reuse of materials, both natural and manmade. The organization has made mats from hair clippings to clean up oil spills since 2000. Craig Gautier is hoping her organization’s talks with BP and the federal government, as well as the the goodwill of tens of thousands of businesses and hundreds of thousands of individuals who are donating, will turn the tide at the oil company. “We absolutely can put these booms in the water,’’ she said. “It’s really up to the people of North America to decide. Megan McKee can be reached at megan.mckee@gmail.com. 2010 HIGHLIGHTED PROGRAMS NEWS REPORT FROM AP/NOLA http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/engineers_will_not_use_hair_to.html Engineers will not use hair to soak Gulf oil spill By The Associated Press May 22, 2010, 1:41PM View full sizeCasey Kreider, Lancaster Newspapers/The Associated PressThis alpaca's coat was shorn in hopes the hair would soak up oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak in the Gulf of Mexico. Engineers will not use booms made out of hair to soak up the growing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Barbers have collected hair in hopes that it could contain the ooze as it invades deeper into coastal marshland. But crews said Saturday they concluded using the hair was not feasible, and the organizations collecting the hair were asked to stop doing so. Engineers said a test conducted in February during an oil spill in Texas showed that commercial boom absorbed more oil and less water than hair boom. Charlie Henry of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said booms made from hair became water-logged and sank within a short period of time. ========== GULF COAST - HOW EVERYONE CAN HELP! ALL salons, groomers, wool & alpaca fleece farmers and individuals can sign up to donate hair, fur, fleece, feathers, nylons and funding... A) We have many temporarily donated warehouses of various sizes strategically placed along the Gulf Coast. We are coordinating space for donations and emailing addresses, to everyone who signs up, to make sure donations are effectively distributed. B) Please sign up to our database. It's FREE and It's FAST. (SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE DETAILS) http://matteroftrust.org/programs/natural.html =========== We have 3 types of programs: 1.Manmade Surplus (reuse and recycling of furniture, clothes, instruments, supplies, etc.) 2.Natural Surplus (products using materials found abundantly in nature) 3.Eco-Educational (environmental awareness and media projects) -> Link to Hair/Fur Collection instructions: http://www.matteroftrust.org/programs/hairmatsinfo.html Also note YouTube links... http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2010/06/10/local_salons_join_effort_to_collect_hair_and_fur_for_oil_cleanup/ Boston Globe Article By Megan McKee Globe Correspondent / June 10, 2010 Hair salons, pet groomers, and veterinarians in Waltham, Lexington, Acton, and Sherborn have joined a nationwide effort to collect hair and fur clippings for use in natural-fiber oil booms, which are being assembled by hundreds of volunteers in an effort to stem the environmental damage from the massive British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. “People are surprised about the concept,’’ said Marlene Maffei-Ryan, owner of the As You Like It Hair Salon in Acton. However, she said, once people understand the idea, they’re excited about it. Some clients have even had more hair cut off than they originally intended after hearing where the clippings were headed, she said. “It’s been great. We don’t do anything with the hair anyhow. We bag it and trash it . . . It’s a good cause and it’s easy work for us,’’ she said. The effort, which has brought in 570 businesses across Massachusetts, is being mounted by the group Matter of Trust on a website devoted to reducing the carbon imprint of dogs. The group is collecting clippings from salons, groomers, alpaca and llama farmers, individuals, veterinarians, and pet owners. The organization’s president, Lisa Craig Gautier, said she is receiving thousands of e-mails per day, and most are from those wishing to donate. The organization sends out e-mails with addresses of warehouses where the donors should send clippings. Once there, volunteers stuff them into nylon stockings and tie off the ends. Then they’re ready for deployment. Craig Gauthier said BP has decided not to use natural-fiber booms in its cleanup effort but rather rely on synthetic booms. But harbormasters in Florida have announced they will use the booms, Craig Gauthier said, and Matter of Trust is hoping the response to its campaign will help change the BP approach. The organization has about 10 miles of boom ready to go. “We don’t have anything against synthetic boom, but you have to drill oil to make it,’’ said Craig Gautier. “This is a renewable resource that we’re diverting from a landfill.’’ Locally, Waltham’s Veterinary and Emergency Center of New England is one of the entities participating in the effort. “We’re always shaving areas’’ on their animal patients for medical procedures, said Sharon Gately, spokeswoman for the center, “and it usually just goes to waste. I just thought it was such a good idea.’’ Gately said the Waltham animal hospital also will have a bin out front to collect nylons; Craig Gautier said Hooters just donated 100,000 pairs. At Lexington’s Blue salon, desk manager Michael Surette said the salon has already made four shipments thanks to the trashbag-size amount of clippings that are disposed of daily. A neighbor of the salon has volunteered to collect and mail the bags of donated hair. In Sherborn, Serena’s Groom Room is doing warm-weather shave-downs for pets, which means it is an opportune time to participate in the program, said owner Serena Keating. “I think this is a really cool way for us being able to help a really bad situation,’’ said Keating. “This is a little more global for us. . . It’s something indirectly all of my customers have done a lot to help.’’ In the meantime, Matter of Trust is using social media websites to round up volunteers in places like Alabama and Florida to stuff pantyhose with clippings, and the group is urging people to contact the government to press for the booms to be used. The organization was founded in 1998 by Craig Gautier and her husband, Patrice Oliver Gautier, an executive at Apple Inc., and is involved in multiple efforts to promote the reuse of materials, both natural and manmade. The organization has made mats from hair clippings to clean up oil spills since 2000. Craig Gautier is hoping her organization’s talks with BP and the federal government, as well as the the goodwill of tens of thousands of businesses and hundreds of thousands of individuals who are donating, will turn the tide at the oil company. “We absolutely can put these booms in the water,’’ she said. “It’s really up to the people of North America to decide. Megan McKee can be reached at megan.mckee@gmail.com. 2010 HIGHLIGHTED PROGRAMS NEWS REPORT FROM AP/NOLA http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/engineers_will_not_use_hair_to.html Engineers will not use hair to soak Gulf oil spill By The Associated Press May 22, 2010, 1:41PM View full sizeCasey Kreider, Lancaster Newspapers/The Associated PressThis alpaca's coat was shorn in hopes the hair would soak up oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak in the Gulf of Mexico. Engineers will not use booms made out of hair to soak up the growing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Barbers have collected hair in hopes that it could contain the ooze as it invades deeper into coastal marshland. But crews said Saturday they concluded using the hair was not feasible, and the organizations collecting the hair were asked to stop doing so. Engineers said a test conducted in February during an oil spill in Texas showed that commercial boom absorbed more oil and less water than hair boom. Charlie Henry of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said booms made from hair became water-logged and sank within a short period of time. ========== GULF COAST - HOW EVERYONE CAN HELP! ALL salons, groomers, wool & alpaca fleece farmers and individuals can sign up to donate hair, fur, fleece, feathers, nylons and funding... A) We have many temporarily donated warehouses of various sizes strategically placed along the Gulf Coast. We are coordinating space for donations and emailing addresses, to everyone who signs up, to make sure donations are effectively distributed. B) Please sign up to our database. It's FREE and It's FAST. (SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE DETAILS) http://matteroftrust.org/programs/natural.html =========== We have 3 types of programs: 1.Manmade Surplus (reuse and recycling of furniture, clothes, instruments, supplies, etc.) 2.Natural Surplus (products using materials found abundantly in nature) 3.Eco-Educational (environmental awareness and media projects)

notes: http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2010/06/10/local_salons_join_effort_to_collect_hair_and_fur_for_oil_cleanup/ Boston Globe Article By Megan McKee Globe Correspondent / June 10, 2010 Hair salons, pet groomers, and veterinarians in Waltham, Lexington, Acton, and Sherborn have joined a nationwide effort to collect hair and fur clippings for use in natural-fiber oil booms, which are being assembled by hundreds of volunteers in an effort to stem the environmental damage from the massive British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. “People are surprised about the concept,’’ said Marlene Maffei-Ryan, owner of the As You Like It Hair Salon in Acton. However, she said, once people understand the idea, they’re excited about it. Some clients have even had more hair cut off than they originally intended after hearing where the clippings were headed, she said. “It’s been great. We don’t do anything with the hair anyhow. We bag it and trash it . . . It’s a good cause and it’s easy work for us,’’ she said. The effort, which has brought in 570 businesses across Massachusetts, is being mounted by the group Matter of Trust on a website devoted to reducing the carbon imprint of dogs. The group is collecting clippings from salons, groomers, alpaca and llama farmers, individuals, veterinarians, and pet owners. The organization’s president, Lisa Craig Gautier, said she is receiving thousands of e-mails per day, and most are from those wishing to donate. The organization sends out e-mails with addresses of warehouses where the donors should send clippings. Once there, volunteers stuff them into nylon stockings and tie off the ends. Then they’re ready for deployment. Craig Gauthier said BP has decided not to use natural-fiber booms in its cleanup effort but rather rely on synthetic booms. But harbormasters in Florida have announced they will use the booms, Craig Gauthier said, and Matter of Trust is hoping the response to its campaign will help change the BP approach. The organization has about 10 miles of boom ready to go. “We don’t have anything against synthetic boom, but you have to drill oil to make it,’’ said Craig Gautier. “This is a renewable resource that we’re diverting from a landfill.’’ Locally, Waltham’s Veterinary and Emergency Center of New England is one of the entities participating in the effort. “We’re always shaving areas’’ on their animal patients for medical procedures, said Sharon Gately, spokeswoman for the center, “and it usually just goes to waste. I just thought it was such a good idea.’’ Gately said the Waltham animal hospital also will have a bin out front to collect nylons; Craig Gautier said Hooters just donated 100,000 pairs. At Lexington’s Blue salon, desk manager Michael Surette said the salon has already made four shipments thanks to the trashbag-size amount of clippings that are disposed of daily. A neighbor of the salon has volunteered to collect and mail the bags of donated hair. In Sherborn, Serena’s Groom Room is doing warm-weather shave-downs for pets, which means it is an opportune time to participate in the program, said owner Serena Keating. “I think this is a really cool way for us being able to help a really bad situation,’’ said Keating. “This is a little more global for us. . . It’s something indirectly all of my customers have done a lot to help.’’ In the meantime, Matter of Trust is using social media websites to round up volunteers in places like Alabama and Florida to stuff pantyhose with clippings, and the group is urging people to contact the government to press for the booms to be used. The organization was founded in 1998 by Craig Gautier and her husband, Patrice Oliver Gautier, an executive at Apple Inc., and is involved in multiple efforts to promote the reuse of materials, both natural and manmade. The organization has made mats from hair clippings to clean up oil spills since 2000. Craig Gautier is hoping her organization’s talks with BP and the federal government, as well as the the goodwill of tens of thousands of businesses and hundreds of thousands of individuals who are donating, will turn the tide at the oil company. “We absolutely can put these booms in the water,’’ she said. “It’s really up to the people of North America to decide. Megan McKee can be reached at megan.mckee@gmail.com. 2010 HIGHLIGHTED PROGRAMS NEWS REPORT FROM AP/NOLA http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/engineers_will_not_use_hair_to.html Engineers will not use hair to soak Gulf oil spill By The Associated Press May 22, 2010, 1:41PM View full sizeCasey Kreider, Lancaster Newspapers/The Associated PressThis alpaca's coat was shorn in hopes the hair would soak up oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak in the Gulf of Mexico. Engineers will not use booms made out of hair to soak up the growing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Barbers have collected hair in hopes that it could contain the ooze as it invades deeper into coastal marshland. But crews said Saturday they concluded using the hair was not feasible, and the organizations collecting the hair were asked to stop doing so. Engineers said a test conducted in February during an oil spill in Texas showed that commercial boom absorbed more oil and less water than hair boom. Charlie Henry of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said booms made from hair became water-logged and sank within a short period of time. ========== GULF COAST - HOW EVERYONE CAN HELP! ALL salons, groomers, wool & alpaca fleece farmers and individuals can sign up to donate hair, fur, fleece, feathers, nylons and funding... A) We have many temporarily donated warehouses of various sizes strategically placed along the Gulf Coast. We are coordinating space for donations and emailing addresses, to everyone who signs up, to make sure donations are effectively distributed. B) Please sign up to our database. It's FREE and It's FAST. (SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE DETAILS) http://matteroftrust.org/programs/natural.html =========== We have 3 types of programs: 1.Manmade Surplus (reuse and recycling of furniture, clothes, instruments, supplies, etc.) 2.Natural Surplus (products using materials found abundantly in nature) 3.Eco-Educational (environmental awareness and media projects) -> Link to Hair/Fur Collection instructions: http://www.matteroftrust.org/programs/hairmatsinfo.html http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2010/06/10/local_salons_join_effort_to_collect_hair_and_fur_for_oil_cleanup/ Boston Globe Article By Megan McKee Globe Correspondent / June 10, 2010 Hair salons, pet groomers, and veterinarians in Waltham, Lexington, Acton, and Sherborn have joined a nationwide effort to collect hair and fur clippings for use in natural-fiber oil booms, which are being assembled by hundreds of volunteers in an effort to stem the environmental damage from the massive British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. “People are surprised about the concept,’’ said Marlene Maffei-Ryan, owner of the As You Like It Hair Salon in Acton. However, she said, once people understand the idea, they’re excited about it. Some clients have even had more hair cut off than they originally intended after hearing where the clippings were headed, she said. “It’s been great. We don’t do anything with the hair anyhow. We bag it and trash it . . . It’s a good cause and it’s easy work for us,’’ she said. The effort, which has brought in 570 businesses across Massachusetts, is being mounted by the group Matter of Trust on a website devoted to reducing the carbon imprint of dogs. The group is collecting clippings from salons, groomers, alpaca and llama farmers, individuals, veterinarians, and pet owners. The organization’s president, Lisa Craig Gautier, said she is receiving thousands of e-mails per day, and most are from those wishing to donate. The organization sends out e-mails with addresses of warehouses where the donors should send clippings. Once there, volunteers stuff them into nylon stockings and tie off the ends. Then they’re ready for deployment. Craig Gauthier said BP has decided not to use natural-fiber booms in its cleanup effort but rather rely on synthetic booms. But harbormasters in Florida have announced they will use the booms, Craig Gauthier said, and Matter of Trust is hoping the response to its campaign will help change the BP approach. The organization has about 10 miles of boom ready to go. “We don’t have anything against synthetic boom, but you have to drill oil to make it,’’ said Craig Gautier. “This is a renewable resource that we’re diverting from a landfill.’’ Locally, Waltham’s Veterinary and Emergency Center of New England is one of the entities participating in the effort. “We’re always shaving areas’’ on their animal patients for medical procedures, said Sharon Gately, spokeswoman for the center, “and it usually just goes to waste. I just thought it was such a good idea.’’ Gately said the Waltham animal hospital also will have a bin out front to collect nylons; Craig Gautier said Hooters just donated 100,000 pairs. At Lexington’s Blue salon, desk manager Michael Surette said the salon has already made four shipments thanks to the trashbag-size amount of clippings that are disposed of daily. A neighbor of the salon has volunteered to collect and mail the bags of donated hair. In Sherborn, Serena’s Groom Room is doing warm-weather shave-downs for pets, which means it is an opportune time to participate in the program, said owner Serena Keating. “I think this is a really cool way for us being able to help a really bad situation,’’ said Keating. “This is a little more global for us. . . It’s something indirectly all of my customers have done a lot to help.’’ In the meantime, Matter of Trust is using social media websites to round up volunteers in places like Alabama and Florida to stuff pantyhose with clippings, and the group is urging people to contact the government to press for the booms to be used. The organization was founded in 1998 by Craig Gautier and her husband, Patrice Oliver Gautier, an executive at Apple Inc., and is involved in multiple efforts to promote the reuse of materials, both natural and manmade. The organization has made mats from hair clippings to clean up oil spills since 2000. Craig Gautier is hoping her organization’s talks with BP and the federal government, as well as the the goodwill of tens of thousands of businesses and hundreds of thousands of individuals who are donating, will turn the tide at the oil company. “We absolutely can put these booms in the water,’’ she said. “It’s really up to the people of North America to decide. Megan McKee can be reached at megan.mckee@gmail.com. 2010 HIGHLIGHTED PROGRAMS NEWS REPORT FROM AP/NOLA http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/engineers_will_not_use_hair_to.html Engineers will not use hair to soak Gulf oil spill By The Associated Press May 22, 2010, 1:41PM View full sizeCasey Kreider, Lancaster Newspapers/The Associated PressThis alpaca's coat was shorn in hopes the hair would soak up oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak in the Gulf of Mexico. Engineers will not use booms made out of hair to soak up the growing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Barbers have collected hair in hopes that it could contain the ooze as it invades deeper into coastal marshland. But crews said Saturday they concluded using the hair was not feasible, and the organizations collecting the hair were asked to stop doing so. Engineers said a test conducted in February during an oil spill in Texas showed that commercial boom absorbed more oil and less water than hair boom. Charlie Henry of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said booms made from hair became water-logged and sank within a short period of time. ========== GULF COAST - HOW EVERYONE CAN HELP! ALL salons, groomers, wool & alpaca fleece farmers and individuals can sign up to donate hair, fur, fleece, feathers, nylons and funding... A) We have many temporarily donated warehouses of various sizes strategically placed along the Gulf Coast. We are coordinating space for donations and emailing addresses, to everyone who signs up, to make sure donations are effectively distributed. B) Please sign up to our database. It's FREE and It's FAST. (SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE DETAILS) http://matteroftrust.org/programs/natural.html =========== We have 3 types of programs: 1.Manmade Surplus (reuse and recycling of furniture, clothes, instruments, supplies, etc.) 2.Natural Surplus (products using materials found abundantly in nature) 3.Eco-Educational (environmental awareness and media projects)

name: Matter of Trust, Inc. -> Matter of Trust, Inc. (Collecting Hair/Fur for Oilspill Booms)
notes: 2010 HIGHLIGHTED PROGRAMS NEWS REPORT FROM AP/NOLA http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/engineers_will_not_use_hair_to.html Engineers will not use hair to soak Gulf oil spill By The Associated Press May 22, 2010, 1:41PM View full sizeCasey Kreider, Lancaster Newspapers/The Associated PressThis alpaca's coat was shorn in hopes the hair would soak up oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak in the Gulf of Mexico. Engineers will not use booms made out of hair to soak up the growing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Barbers have collected hair in hopes that it could contain the ooze as it invades deeper into coastal marshland. But crews said Saturday they concluded using the hair was not feasible, and the organizations collecting the hair were asked to stop doing so. Engineers said a test conducted in February during an oil spill in Texas showed that commercial boom absorbed more oil and less water than hair boom. Charlie Henry of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said booms made from hair became water-logged and sank within a short period of time. ========== GULF COAST - HOW EVERYONE CAN HELP! ALL salons, groomers, wool & alpaca fleece farmers and individuals can sign up to donate hair, fur, fleece, feathers, nylons and funding... A) We have many temporarily donated warehouses of various sizes strategically placed along the Gulf Coast. We are coordinating space for donations and emailing addresses, to everyone who signs up, to make sure donations are effectively distributed. B) Please sign up to our database. It's FREE and It's FAST. (SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE DETAILS) http://matteroftrust.org/programs/natural.html =========== We have 3 types of programs: 1.Manmade Surplus (reuse and recycling of furniture, clothes, instruments, supplies, etc.) 2.Natural Surplus (products using materials found abundantly in nature) 3.Eco-Educational (environmental awareness and media projects) -> http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2010/06/10/local_salons_join_effort_to_collect_hair_and_fur_for_oil_cleanup/ Boston Globe Article By Megan McKee Globe Correspondent / June 10, 2010 Hair salons, pet groomers, and veterinarians in Waltham, Lexington, Acton, and Sherborn have joined a nationwide effort to collect hair and fur clippings for use in natural-fiber oil booms, which are being assembled by hundreds of volunteers in an effort to stem the environmental damage from the massive British Petroleum oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. “People are surprised about the concept,’’ said Marlene Maffei-Ryan, owner of the As You Like It Hair Salon in Acton. However, she said, once people understand the idea, they’re excited about it. Some clients have even had more hair cut off than they originally intended after hearing where the clippings were headed, she said. “It’s been great. We don’t do anything with the hair anyhow. We bag it and trash it . . . It’s a good cause and it’s easy work for us,’’ she said. The effort, which has brought in 570 businesses across Massachusetts, is being mounted by the group Matter of Trust on a website devoted to reducing the carbon imprint of dogs. The group is collecting clippings from salons, groomers, alpaca and llama farmers, individuals, veterinarians, and pet owners. The organization’s president, Lisa Craig Gautier, said she is receiving thousands of e-mails per day, and most are from those wishing to donate. The organization sends out e-mails with addresses of warehouses where the donors should send clippings. Once there, volunteers stuff them into nylon stockings and tie off the ends. Then they’re ready for deployment. Craig Gauthier said BP has decided not to use natural-fiber booms in its cleanup effort but rather rely on synthetic booms. But harbormasters in Florida have announced they will use the booms, Craig Gauthier said, and Matter of Trust is hoping the response to its campaign will help change the BP approach. The organization has about 10 miles of boom ready to go. “We don’t have anything against synthetic boom, but you have to drill oil to make it,’’ said Craig Gautier. “This is a renewable resource that we’re diverting from a landfill.’’ Locally, Waltham’s Veterinary and Emergency Center of New England is one of the entities participating in the effort. “We’re always shaving areas’’ on their animal patients for medical procedures, said Sharon Gately, spokeswoman for the center, “and it usually just goes to waste. I just thought it was such a good idea.’’ Gately said the Waltham animal hospital also will have a bin out front to collect nylons; Craig Gautier said Hooters just donated 100,000 pairs. At Lexington’s Blue salon, desk manager Michael Surette said the salon has already made four shipments thanks to the trashbag-size amount of clippings that are disposed of daily. A neighbor of the salon has volunteered to collect and mail the bags of donated hair. In Sherborn, Serena’s Groom Room is doing warm-weather shave-downs for pets, which means it is an opportune time to participate in the program, said owner Serena Keating. “I think this is a really cool way for us being able to help a really bad situation,’’ said Keating. “This is a little more global for us. . . It’s something indirectly all of my customers have done a lot to help.’’ In the meantime, Matter of Trust is using social media websites to round up volunteers in places like Alabama and Florida to stuff pantyhose with clippings, and the group is urging people to contact the government to press for the booms to be used. The organization was founded in 1998 by Craig Gautier and her husband, Patrice Oliver Gautier, an executive at Apple Inc., and is involved in multiple efforts to promote the reuse of materials, both natural and manmade. The organization has made mats from hair clippings to clean up oil spills since 2000. Craig Gautier is hoping her organization’s talks with BP and the federal government, as well as the the goodwill of tens of thousands of businesses and hundreds of thousands of individuals who are donating, will turn the tide at the oil company. “We absolutely can put these booms in the water,’’ she said. “It’s really up to the people of North America to decide. Megan McKee can be reached at megan.mckee@gmail.com. 2010 HIGHLIGHTED PROGRAMS NEWS REPORT FROM AP/NOLA http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/engineers_will_not_use_hair_to.html Engineers will not use hair to soak Gulf oil spill By The Associated Press May 22, 2010, 1:41PM View full sizeCasey Kreider, Lancaster Newspapers/The Associated PressThis alpaca's coat was shorn in hopes the hair would soak up oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak in the Gulf of Mexico. Engineers will not use booms made out of hair to soak up the growing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Barbers have collected hair in hopes that it could contain the ooze as it invades deeper into coastal marshland. But crews said Saturday they concluded using the hair was not feasible, and the organizations collecting the hair were asked to stop doing so. Engineers said a test conducted in February during an oil spill in Texas showed that commercial boom absorbed more oil and less water than hair boom. Charlie Henry of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said booms made from hair became water-logged and sank within a short period of time. ========== GULF COAST - HOW EVERYONE CAN HELP! ALL salons, groomers, wool & alpaca fleece farmers and individuals can sign up to donate hair, fur, fleece, feathers, nylons and funding... A) We have many temporarily donated warehouses of various sizes strategically placed along the Gulf Coast. We are coordinating space for donations and emailing addresses, to everyone who signs up, to make sure donations are effectively distributed. B) Please sign up to our database. It's FREE and It's FAST. (SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE DETAILS) http://matteroftrust.org/programs/natural.html =========== We have 3 types of programs: 1.Manmade Surplus (reuse and recycling of furniture, clothes, instruments, supplies, etc.) 2.Natural Surplus (products using materials found abundantly in nature) 3.Eco-Educational (environmental awareness and media projects)
organization: -> Recycling Network

notes: 2010 HIGHLIGHTED PROGRAMS GULF COAST - HOW EVERYONE CAN HELP! ALL salons, groomers, wool & alpaca fleece farmers and individuals can sign up to donate hair, fur, fleece, feathers, nylons and funding... A) We have many temporarily donated warehouses of various sizes strategically placed along the Gulf Coast. We are coordinating space for donations and emailing addresses, to everyone who signs up, to make sure donations are effectively distributed. B) Please sign up to our database. It's FREE and It's FAST. (SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE DETAILS) http://matteroftrust.org/programs/natural.html =========== We have 3 types of programs: 1.Manmade Surplus (reuse and recycling of furniture, clothes, instruments, supplies, etc.) 2.Natural Surplus (products using materials found abundantly in nature) 3.Eco-Educational (environmental awareness and media projects) -> 2010 HIGHLIGHTED PROGRAMS NEWS REPORT FROM AP/NOLA http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/engineers_will_not_use_hair_to.html Engineers will not use hair to soak Gulf oil spill By The Associated Press May 22, 2010, 1:41PM View full sizeCasey Kreider, Lancaster Newspapers/The Associated PressThis alpaca's coat was shorn in hopes the hair would soak up oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak in the Gulf of Mexico. Engineers will not use booms made out of hair to soak up the growing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Barbers have collected hair in hopes that it could contain the ooze as it invades deeper into coastal marshland. But crews said Saturday they concluded using the hair was not feasible, and the organizations collecting the hair were asked to stop doing so. Engineers said a test conducted in February during an oil spill in Texas showed that commercial boom absorbed more oil and less water than hair boom. Charlie Henry of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said booms made from hair became water-logged and sank within a short period of time. ========== GULF COAST - HOW EVERYONE CAN HELP! ALL salons, groomers, wool & alpaca fleece farmers and individuals can sign up to donate hair, fur, fleece, feathers, nylons and funding... A) We have many temporarily donated warehouses of various sizes strategically placed along the Gulf Coast. We are coordinating space for donations and emailing addresses, to everyone who signs up, to make sure donations are effectively distributed. B) Please sign up to our database. It's FREE and It's FAST. (SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE DETAILS) http://matteroftrust.org/programs/natural.html =========== We have 3 types of programs: 1.Manmade Surplus (reuse and recycling of furniture, clothes, instruments, supplies, etc.) 2.Natural Surplus (products using materials found abundantly in nature) 3.Eco-Educational (environmental awareness and media projects)

notes: 2010 HIGHLIGHTED PROGRAMS GULF COAST - HOW EVERYONE CAN HELP! ALL salons, groomers, wool & alpaca fleece farmers and individuals can sign up to donate hair, fur, fleece, feathers, nylons and funding... A) We have many temporarily donated warehouses of various sizes strategically placed along the Gulf Coast. We are coordinating space for donations and emailing addresses, to everyone who signs up, to make sure donations are effectively distributed. B) Please sign up to our database. It's FREE and It's FAST. (SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE DETAILS) =========== We have 3 types of programs: 1.Manmade Surplus (reuse and recycling of furniture, clothes, instruments, supplies, etc.) 2.Natural Surplus (products using materials found abundantly in nature) 3.Eco-Educational (environmental awareness and media projects) -> 2010 HIGHLIGHTED PROGRAMS GULF COAST - HOW EVERYONE CAN HELP! ALL salons, groomers, wool & alpaca fleece farmers and individuals can sign up to donate hair, fur, fleece, feathers, nylons and funding... A) We have many temporarily donated warehouses of various sizes strategically placed along the Gulf Coast. We are coordinating space for donations and emailing addresses, to everyone who signs up, to make sure donations are effectively distributed. B) Please sign up to our database. It's FREE and It's FAST. (SEE WEBSITE FOR MORE DETAILS) http://matteroftrust.org/programs/natural.html =========== We have 3 types of programs: 1.Manmade Surplus (reuse and recycling of furniture, clothes, instruments, supplies, etc.) 2.Natural Surplus (products using materials found abundantly in nature) 3.Eco-Educational (environmental awareness and media projects)