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Local hair clippings to help oil spill

\"Hair Only\" clippings
WBFO News photo by Eileen Buckley
\"Hair Only\" clippings

By Eileen Buckley

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Cheektowaga, NY – A variety of techniques are being used to clean up the millions of gallons of oil in the Gulf of Mexico. Now an area hair salon chain is trying to help. WBFO'S Eileen Buckley finds out how hair clippings are being used in the Gulf spill.

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The Fantastic Sams on Rossler Avenue in Cheektowaga is one of the chains 20-area salons collecting hair clippings to be used to absorb the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Each salon is expected to collect one pound of hair clippings a day -- for a total of 100-pounds of hair a week.