What can you do with 20 tonnes for human hair? ✂️

[@darrenmurray861]

When an oil tank ran aground in Mauritius a few years ago, the citizens sacrificed their hair for this very purpose.

[@Tmb1112]

That’s so cool!

[@darrenmurray861]

@@Tmb1112 Mauritians are very attached to their island and surrounding sea.

[@Ali-mv3jc]

That's so lovely of them. Such a shame that happened

[@JGStone]

Well that is not completely true tho, they didn't sacrifice any hair, but volunteers were going around all the hair salons and collected all the already cut off hair. Mauritius isn't full of bald people now.

[@matthewwilliams4065]

Santa Claus is a monster

[@LauraBidingCitizen]

That’s actually absolutely amazing! I remember so many news reports in the 90’s & early 00’s on terrible oil spills. How phenomenal x

[@effyleven]

​@K B He WAS referred to by name. "Phil McCrory"... also in subtitles.

[@seanc11]

How phenomenoil you mean ;)

[@gageshaw2113]

Now we just don’t post it on the news

[@LauraBidingCitizen]

@@gageshaw2113 It is on the news, just online since people rarely buy or read newspapers any more or watch the news on TV (unless a major event has / is happening). I tend to avoid all news at times as I just find it very woeful.

[@nova-co3bp]

Its not very good and they dont actually usr hair anymore they use something but I dont remember what

[@adrianghandtchi1562]

That’s actually one of the most incredible things I’ve ever heard, and I applaud there intelligence and to make that connection in order to make that happen.

[@joeshanks971]

That’s QI for ya. You have to watch the Stephen Fry ones.

[@PK_Droid]

*their intelligence

[@disgustedluigi]

@@PK_Droid *his intelligence

[@Oleandra-13]

That's redneck ingenuity at its best.

[@imadoggo3916]

@@disgustedluigi no he used the wrong there.

[@ARVash]

I'm glad he didn't just take a bunch of otters and throw them into an oil spill.

[@meljaxb]

😂😂😂

[@DzinkyDzink]

well that had already been proven to work 😅

[@Nikybeez]

🤣🤣🤣

[@alim.9801]

Otters are way too cute for that. Also that would be horrible to do to even something less cute

[@ConstantChaos1]

I was sure he was going to recommend hair oil for otters

[@400cabal]

I remember in the mid 2000s, we had a local oil spill in my city and all of the barbershops and salons were bagging up the hair trimmings to contribute.

[@effyleven]

Congratulations to that hairdresser. Now, hairdressers generally DO make people's lives better, just by being hairdressers ... but you really went off the dial, man, and made the whole world better. Thank you for your stunning piece of lateral thinking. Consider yourself duly promoted to the "A" ship.

[@jerrywhidby.]

I'm picturing the face of that ol Alabama barber when someone calls him a hairdresser or a stylist.

[@yannickdrmda5295]

There are actually companies that educate the hairstylists with this and collect the hair to make those things. Should be implemented as a law.

[@Strife93]

We shouldn't be so hasty to make new laws the government should just make insintives like if your business donates all their hair clippings they get a small tax write off.

[@theeccentric7263]

@@Strife93 I mean I think that’s the type of policy they were alluding to. And I agree with you.

[@sws212]

@@Strife93 Dude, it's waste. The city should be implementing something for materials that has no benefit otherwise. It's no different than regulations for auto shops and their used motor oil or anything with chemicals. There's a need to for business to do what they need and there are needs for them to not throw random nonsense in rivers and landfills.

[@salemcrow5078]

​@@sws212And you can't exactly burn the clippings either. Not unless you really hate everyone in the surrounding area anyways.

[@Strife93]

@@sws212 what are you talking about this comment thread is talking about giving hair for oil spills not about hairstylist throwing waste in rivers

[@casbot71]

So my baldness is environmentally unfriendly? [Edit; I'm now getting KZbin ads for hair loss products 🙄]

[@Tupelo927]

Look at it this way, mate: you conserve water by not having hair to wash & rinse.

[@casbot71]

@@shintaruGT3 Why did you post a picture _of me_ with tears of laughter?

[@Sig2423]

💀💀💀💀

[@skylined5534]

​@@Sig2423 Lots of skull emojis because 'cool'?

[@lexsyyk]

​@@skylined5534 uhhh no. They mean its ridiculously funny, like people say "I'm dead" when saying something is hilarious. Idk if you were genuinely confused about that but..

[@Constance_tinople]

I love everyone’s genuine interest in and astonishment towards the story

[@clarebo]

My hair stylist told me about this.. it's nice to know my hair helped!

[@fionaclaphamhoward5876]

I think this has a connection to a project called Sustainable Salons. Hair salons collect their clippings and they get put into these booms instead of landfill. And in fact recycling or re-using is put in place for all the salon waste, from the foils to the shampoo bottles and pumps. Pet groomers can also sign up and pet clippings go to the oil spill booms too. My stylist can't stop raving about it!

[@abeywarc]

These are great initiatives really… but kind of backwards in the approach. Don’t get me wrong, to get where we are now, the industrial revolutions really did their part. But now I suppose we can shift quite rapidly towards alternatives and yet the sunk costs and inertia of the fossil fuel industry/mafia is too much to do so. I personally think that prevention is far better than mitigation. Just my two cents 🙏🏼

[@christopherthompson5400]

​@@abeywarc nuclear was always the way to go.

[@HelpToFindHappyness]

​@@abeywarc of course. As the time that passes, until someone comes to act on such a mess - there still living beings get harmed.

[@HelpToFindHappyness]

And I get to know about that on yt.

[@ConstantChaos1]

There are also salons that collect the hair to be economical friendly deer and rabbit repellent, the smell of humans makes them less likely to eat crops

[@10054]

Can I just note how that girl was genuinely intrigued with what she was saying? I've had those same, "WOW, that is genius thinking! How interesting!" Just something a little positive for the world.

[@RAM-db3ti]

Just simple science. Great job man. We need more of you around the world. ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@steves1015]

That is amazing! And a great reminder that inventions can come from anywhere and not just in labs with expensive equipment. The simplicity of this is beautiful!

[@salemcrow5078]

the best inventions definitely come from people with diverse experiences and deal with real world problems daily

[@alim.9801]

God bless Paul dude, what an amazing guy!!!!

[@ryoryo9936]

The first thing to came to mind in answer to the question was: “Make people think you’re really weird.”

[@thezeronelite]

Hilarious

[@SmileOrangeWillow]

I went to school in Uganda at the age of 15, from the UK since birth. They cut off all my hair when I got there, I was crying so much I kept it in a bag. They found it a few months later in my dormitory and called me a witch. I became the school witch 🙃

[@RioRav]

@@SmileOrangeWillow oh no! Sorry that happened to you 😢❤ but I hope you can start to see the humor in it now? 😊 Kids can be so stupid that they always find any reason to give a nickname or to single someone out for anything

[@HelpToFindHappyness]

​@@SmileOrangeWillow just... Dear.

[@valeriejames4675]

Chad out here saving the animals, the environment, and making you look good doing it.

[@weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars]

OK, now that's absolutely Fantastic!!

[@BeeRich33]

You need to go outside.

[@weatherwitchandfelinefamiliars]

@@BeeRich33 why? have I been naughty? 😛🤣🤣

[@scazdog]

theyve started a new way of doing it without the plastics of nets and tights. They mat the hair into cubes and 'rugs' and they take any hair bleached or natural!!

[@skylined5534]

Awesome but this was lateral thinking to the max. Even the plastic would absorb the potential *plastic.*

[@salemcrow5078]

the forbidden rug

[@_Cambria_]

I'm a pet groomer and at one salon I worked at we would donate the clippings to be used in oil spills whenever there was a big one and they needed donations.

[@swimdude15005]

this is phenomenal resourcefulness and ingenuity

[@niabothwell2199]

I love that she is sharing this fun useful fact. It’s so beneficial for people to know about this and donate to help horrific oil spills and lessen further damages to the planet’s ecosystems.

[@skylined5534]

I'm trusting that Phil McCrory got a humanitarian award at the very least.

[@WyldfireKeeper]

Every now and then, human ingenuity makes the world a little brighter.

[@Jo-bs2uu]

I love really clever ideas coming from places that you wouldn't expect them. not a chemist or an engineer, hair stylist! awesome

[@nitram.9621]

From the little ive seen this shows is amazing. Bringing random facts and general culture to the public instead of the usual tv noise

[@merklingassoc]

I had no idea. Why didn't we know about this. Genius. 👏👏👏

[@Dicearoo]

I didn't expect the answer to be weirdly wholesome!

[@littlemschat1052]

Smart, it just shows how collective concern n brainstorming can result in an easy effective idea

[@elenawilliams32]

I'm a hairdresser in Australia and heard about this year's ago. There's a salon in the UK that now run a non profit collecting hair from all over the UK and making it into mats to absorb the oil. Each mat soaks up a massive amount of oil. This should be mandatory for our industry world wide to put the cut hair aside and get it picked up every 2 weeks or similar. Brilliant.

[@JenWren4]

That man's a genius! Hair trimmings also will help keep deer out of gardens and away from grass seed.

[@sillygirl1139]

Wow, what an absolute hero.

[@WS_00]

“What can you do with 20 tonnes for human hair”. Well that makes a lot of sense.

[@spamham897]

This is amazing and good on that guy for his backyard experiment!

[@gregbrogan9061]

Amazing! Simple brilliance!

[@EO-fv3wc]

That’s amazing! What an innovative dude

[@MrHaydnSir]

for once this is one i actually knew, know that whilst alone in the office at my desk i have a solid ‘knowing’ smile, almost a friendly smirk ..to myself

[@Aylali]

they actually started felting the hair as mats to remove plastic from the equation :)

[@tormodhag6824]

In addition to that they use peat moss, it does almost the same. It's really amazing to think about.

[@naeemakbarakash]

This show is my new favourite show

[@joe1205]

What a fantastic way to turn a negative into a positive. From clogging of animal fur to cleaning using cut hair!

[@BriPod90]

What an absolute lad. I'm in awe at the size of this W

[@chrysshart]

Absolutely fascinating!

[@Milaaq302]

That dude from Brooklyn 99 would totally save up his hair to mop up oil spills in his kitchen.

[@robsmithracing]

Sometimes the simplest ideas are the best.

[@Eis_]

"Oh dear! An oil spill! Now, can someone bring me 20 tonnes of hair ASAP."

[@Bigb00bs_umchileanywaysso]

Get to work Rapunzel, that cooking pan can’t get you anywhere no more.

[@FUBARguy107]

One of the more recent oil spills, Kevin Costner bought a bunch of ships designed to desalinate water and had them converted to take the oil out but leave the salt content

[@ViolentAurora]

It wasn't terribly helpful, though. And cost a wild amount of money, time and resources.

[@TheBailingling]

I've actually donated my hair toward that effort in the past. Whenever I get my hair cut that is of significant length, i get it measured. If it's long enough to donate toward wigs, I'll do that; if it fails to meet that length requirement- I donate toward the oil spill clean up efforts. The only exception is when I'm trimming off a couple centimeters of dead ends in my bathroom.

[@salemcrow5078]

you should get a small bin for the dead ends, and take it the shop to be donated once it's full 😂 definitely wouldn't look weird at ALL

[@justlilly7653]

Such an amazing idea! They also make these giant burger pattie shaped ones 😂😂 you can donate to various organizations doing this

[@MainGoldDragon]

Actual genius

[@legitgopnik8431]

The Jojo stand user in the middle with her mouth open

[@zoeeee2952]

recycling to help clean up mess humans made. absolutely brilliant

[@danielleking262]

I've heard of this before, but never knew they were actually doing it!!!

[@Jakestillplays]

Nobody's talking about how amazing "an awful sandwich" is

[@TheEmanep]

Humans can be amazing! Fabulous idea!

[@Leisurelee53]

what a southern American way to look at a problem; "well sheet, I wondur. if this works like that, I'll bet this'll work like this and be juss as good for fiddy dollsrs less." God bless the man.

[@yeahilikeit7575]

Saw it on Blue Peter when I was little. Genius.

[@Bob-dt8tc]

Learnt something new today.

[@mehsinamarin1518]

Saw this one and loved the idea.

[@norababora7365]

The salon I currently work at has taken part of this! We have a bin specifically for hair that we send to create the oil traps. We also are recycling color and metals. We became the first green salon in our city because of this! It’s so cool what he’s done.

[@grey5135]

I love stories of innovation and good ideas 💡

[@LiquidSpiral]

Kumar is the luckiest man in British comedy

[@joca6418]

Habit Hair Culture in Las Vegas donates all their hair clippings for oil spills 🥰 ask for April if you go!

[@ecnalreleam]

I actually knew this one. When the BP spill happened, salons were collecting hair trimmings to send to the gulf.

[@jiujennie]

I'm so glad we are advancing so much everyday

[@kwhufc5769]

All painters slapped themselves after realising they had the answers already in the palm of their hands

[@Hellolove79]

Such a great idea!

[@jreyes122]

Yooooo... Fricking 1000 IQ idea right there

[@denawagner360]

Amazing idea! 👏 👏

[@vladimircurkoski1455]

This is really amazing

[@jasmingovers4403]

I love that! That's amazing!

[@snibdogg5057]

AWESOME!

[@nelly5954]

Proof that not all geniuses are in a lab

[@deniellechapman6911]

I usually let my brush get full and I'll put the hair outside on the porch. Birds love to use it for nests.

[@tonycapri2608]

Congratulations to that man😮

[@ethanhoward389]

Thats just awesome. I love when an engineering mind sees a problem and a simple yet novel solution, and executes on their idea

[@cb.on.yt22]

i believe they’ve switched from the hair booms to hair mats now, they have a machine that mats all the hair down into these flat sheets of hair that can cover more surface area!

[@Oleandra-13]

So basically felted hair?

[@cb.on.yt22]

@@Oleandra-13 yeah but a bit thicker than that! think of like an outdoor welcome mat, the ones made of fibers

[@swellswagal]

if news was like this i might would watch it lol

[@NevaehEvol]

a lot of cosmetology schools now have designated hair trimming trash bins specifically for donating to this process!

[@gindaburra]

I feel like the rabbit who just told the bear that number twos don't stick to rabbit fur.

[@HelloEarthling]

Absolute genius he is. That's all it takes just slight different thinking and u can impact the world.

[@echognomecal6742]

Unlocking genius often requires paying attention & giving some thought. ...as opposed to scrolling.

[@phoenixgate007]

Truly a “eureka” moment.

[@Pleoryo]

Well that first laugh track ended abruptly

[@HK_Musician]

"Make wigs" *flinch*

[@ladyofthemasque]

This is a genuine thing, and I heard about it in the early 90s, iirc. It was absolutely fantastic, AND EVEN BETTER: You can PRESS THE OIL OUT and reuse the hair-booms! Process the oil to refine & clean it, and boom, you're back in business!

[@katicreighton]

Pet grooming salons would be able to help this effort so much. I suggested this when I worked for a big box retail company with a grooming salon and was told they would never do it because they couldn't profit from it. Made me so sad.

[@gwafashofa]

AMAZING!

[@RodLucanor]

What a nice observation lead to an interesting idea

[@lawrencevaughn9149]

The first thing to come out of Alabama that is positive, this man is a genius and should be recognized as one 🤣

[@mbryson2899]

Somehow I now feel even worse about my premature baldness.

[@darkwolfx9959]

Wow and hair lasts so long what a useful way to use it!

[@xtxpxhx]

People that actually deserve a nivel prize

[@CgGoil]

Incredible!!

[@sarahjohndrow3627]

There’s a recycling company that a lot of hair salons use called Green Circle and they recycle everything. A lot of what we use in salons is unsafe for drains and doesn’t break down in landfill so all color tubes are recycled to make more, hair for oil clean up, cardboard and plastics to make new packaging materials. I’m not sure what they do with access color and bleach but they take that as well. Super great company!

[@Jimmypl007]

Dang, you wouldn't want those to catch fire..

[@sc76399]

Makes sense the giving grease in our heart never trickles down it just soles or ask up and collects it

[@Roboshi2007]

I remember this being reported on in a children's news program in the late 90s glad to know it took off

[@TheJLangevin2k]

BRILLIANT!! It's also good for keeping rabbits n critters out from your garden. Not nearly as good as cleaning up oil spills but it works.🤷‍♀️