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Chair Made by Recycling discarded Hair!
Dec 15 2006, Irani

Where do all the hair trimmings at barbershops and beauty salons go? Most often they are swept up and discarded off, just to add to the ever-soaring landfills. But a former London hairdresser, Ronald Thompson, now researching at London South Bank...

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