Hooters Girls Help Fight Oil Spill

ATLANTA (PRNewswire) - Hooters Girls from all over the country will be voluntarily donating their torn pantyhose in an effort to help absorb the oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico. The laundered pantyhose are used to make booms which are stuffed with hair, fur and fleece to absorb the oil. Hooters expects to collect over 100,000 pairs of pantyhose through this effort dubbed, Project Pantyhose, which could ultimately absorb 1 million gallons of oil in the Gulf, if the booms are reused 8 times, the average life of a boom.

The pantyhose that are collected will be shipped to environmental agencies and non-profit organizations Indigo Oceanic and Matter of Trust, which will then be used to create a boom. The booms are then grouped together and sent out into the Gulf to absorb and block the oil from reaching the coast. All of Hooters 380 domestic locations are collecting the pantyhose for a 4 week period to create 15 miles of booms.