'Volcano' of oil to be absorbed using stockings stuffed with HUMAN HAIR as daily cost to BP hits 6.7m
By Mail Foreign Service Last updated at 11:21 AM on 10th May 2010
As fears grow last night that BP's attempt to put a lid on the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico is doomed to failure citizens on the Louisiana coastline are pitching in by donating their HAIR to soak up the spill.
Barbershop and salon cuttings are being stuffed into nylon stockings to form a hair boom that which will be placed in areas of the spill to soak it up.
Astonishingly, each pound of hair is capable of absorbing as much as a gallon of oil.
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