Why people in the Philippines are collecting human hair to clean the ocean
ohn Carlo Malicsi, owner of Bruskos Barber Shop in the Philippine city of Calapan, has collected over two sacks of hair from his clientele over the last 10 days. He’s not alone. Residents across Palawan and Mindoro, popular tourist destinations in the Philippines, are rallying in all kinds of ways, including by donating human hair, to help contain an oil spill that threatens local coastal livelihoods just recovering from the economic downturn wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic.
An oil tanker capsized two weeks ago off the coast of Oriental Mindoro province, and the slick has been dispersing towards the waters of Palawan some 100 miles away.
While the spill has not yet reached El Nido, Capones is worried it will deal a huge blow to their economy once it does, so he and other responders are preparing to do whatever they can to keep it at bay. “First off, it will affect our fishermen and our town,” he said. “If the spill enters our shores, our local tourism will shut down.”On Feb. 28, a tanker sank 400 meters deep in the waters of Oriental Mindoro, spilling the 800,000 liters of industrial oil it carried.
Almost 140,000 people, including some 13,600 fisherfolk, have been affected by the spill across several municipalities, the Philippine Office of Civil Defense
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