Donate your hair for Koh Samet

Following the oil spill naer Koh Samet island in Thailand, which occurred last Saturday, a campaign has been launched. It is called “Donate your hair for Koh Samet” and calls people to donate their hair to absorb the oil slick. Hair have a much higher oil absorbing power than all existing fabrics. The question to which no answer has been given for now is: how much air does it take to absorb the oil slick in Rayong?

An interesting initiative, if it grows and if the teams coordinating the clean-up really use the hair collected. And it is reasonable to doubt that this will happen. A similar operation was launched for the BP oil spill to Unitid States but the hair collected were not used. However, many tests and experiments have shown, the hair are way better than any other material to absorb oil as you can see in this video.

Hair are better to absorb the oil in the water than synthetic materials
Those wishing to join the cleanup as volunteers can meet at Mae Pim beach today and those who can not attend are encouraged to find as many human hair as possible. There are several collection centers including Creative Community Center Ploenchit in Bangkok. Let’s form the biggest wig of the world to absorb the oil spill! We ear about this method for every new oil disaster but is rarely used. We must conceid that the material for making the boom is complicated to collect in sufficient quatity. We, for example, can only make a symbolic donation. But hairdressers of Thailand, let’s send your hair to Rayong !