00:00From beauty salons to cleaning up oil spills,
00:05human hair, a massive market in Africa for wigs and weaves,
00:09is showing its work as an eco-friendly barrier.
00:13In Brazil, leftover hair is now being recycled
00:16to soak up oil in polluted bays.
00:19They are filters filled with human hair
00:22and placed strategically across the Bonesos Inlet
00:25in Guanabara Bay.
00:31So, we use these hairs to fill all these sausages.
00:37We use hairs of different forms, of different kinds of people
00:41and we make these filters,
00:43which is the application you just saw placed in Guanabara Bay,
00:47preventively to filter out oil, biodiesel and other substance
00:50that pollute the water.
00:55The Brazilian non-governmental organization Fiontra is leading the project
01:00to get the filters in place.
01:03Pollution arrives over many days and our barrier can stay up to four months in the sea,
01:10containing the pollution that arises from boats or illegal dumping
01:15or other diverse kinds of pollution.
01:19For the traditional fishing communities, oil and garbage is a problem.
01:23Sergio Cavallo is one of the many fishermen who have got involved in removing garbage
01:28and now oil from the bay.
01:32When we sail for fishing with nets, we find many oil spillage that interferes with our fishing.
01:40The oil stays on the surface but impacts what is up to one and a half meters below.
01:46The fish disappear.
01:50It is hoped that here oil barriers will contribute to the improvement of the ecosystem health.
01:55That is meant to be x2 before you finish,
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