Masri quoted in SFGate article

AirUCI Research Scientist Shahir Masri (School of Public Health) is quoted in a February 22nd article in SFGate on the use of human hair in the cleanup of oil spills.  The United States government has been testing the use of hair to clean up oil spills since the late 1990s and it's also being used to restore grasslands in San Francisco.  Shahir said that research supports the “physical ability of hair to serve as an effective sorbent of oil.”  He added that “thinking of creative ways to clean spills is useful,” but that the “big picture solution is to eliminate oil at its source of entry into the marketplace.”  Read the article