Is Human Hair Effective

A Research Study
On
Natural Science – Biology
“Is Hair Effective in Cleaning Oil Spill?”
Presented by:

Sistual, Sese
Mamaril, Jen

Introduction

Why Human Hair? Is it really effective in cleaning oil spill?
The goal of this paper is to show whether or not Human hair is an effective material in cleaning an oil spill. We will try answering it by gathering data, facts, videos or any available material that could help us in our study.
Human hair as we know it is always available so it is a good thing people consider as one of the options in formulating solution on how to clean oil spills. In some experiments conducted by GREENPEACE, a group in the US, found out that human hair could be useful in cleaning
It could happen either on land or in water. There are several ways for an oil spill to occur. Equipment breaking down or pipes leakage may cause an oil spill. Natural phenomenon such as hurricanes, storms at seas and even tsunamis could also cause an oil tanker or oil facilities to flip over and breakdown, causing to pour out oil. An oil spill is very harmful to the environment and destroys wildlife in that particular area. Animals likes birds that lives on that area dies because oils pills covering their feather. They will try to clean themselves by taking off oil spills but that would only worsen the scenario causing them to be poisoned and die. Marine animals are greatly affected by oil spill from tiny planktons to whales (ThinkQuest, 2002). Suffocation cause by oil spills and oil poisoning are among the first group. Because oil floats on top of water, less light penetrates into the water, limiting the photosynthesis of marine plants and phytoplankton. Oil spills reduce oxygen absorption of the water, causing oxygen dissolution under oil spills to be even less than the deep sea levels. Like in the case of Exxon Valdez Oil Spill brought death to almost 100, 000 to 300,000 seagulls and 3500 to 5000 seals. In Amoco Cadiz oil tanker spill, about 3200 birds from rare species died. Imagine the destruction it could do to our environment. We human, were also greatly affected oil spills both economically and
There is a relatively high percentage of effectiveness using it. Data collected shows that Hair indeed shows enormous result in cleaning such oil spill. In fact there is a massive campaign of collecting hair for this purpose. There were also organizations like MatterTrust whom suggesting and creating innovative products made of it that could be used in for cleaning such oil spill. MatterTrust also brought out campaign asking for donations of hair for this purpose. GREENPEACE MOVEMENT as well suggest to use it in cleaning oil spill all over the world. An environment-friendly way of cleaning toxic oil