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Fayetteville salon donates hair clippings to clean up oil spills [Video]

Aaron Elam, who owns Hairstream Salon, will be donating hair clippings to a California nonprofit that uses the hair to clean up oil spills.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark — A local salon owner is donating customer’s hair clippings to help clean up oil spills.

Aaron Elam, the owner of Hairstream Salon on MLK Jr Boulevard in Fayetteville and a hairstylist for nearly 10 years, says that after graduating from school in California, he came back to Fayetteville and ended up opening Hairstream, an idea his mom gave him.

The salon, a renovated 1978 Airstream trailer, sees an average of six customers daily, five days a week. Elam says that after over a year of collecting hair, he’s ready to donate.

Elam says that he was surfing the web for uses for cut hair when he stumbled across Matters of Trust, a San Francisco-based nonprofit organization that takes hair clippings and makes oil-absorbing mats to help contain oil spills. 

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