Hair today, oil spill boom tomorrow

August 22, 2013

GEE, your hair can save Mother Earth.

The Cebu City government is pinning its hopes on human hair and indigenous materials as an eco-friendly strategy to prevent oil leaking out of the sunken MV St. Thomas Aquinas from reaching the city’s shorelines.

Vice Mayor Edgar Labella, a survivor of the sinking of the MV Princess of the Orient, yesterday demonstrated how to make an oil spill boom using old pantyhose stuffed with human hair.

Clumps of hair donated by salons were stuffed into the stocking and sealed. Tied together they can form a series of absorbent floaters.

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