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Jul 2023
13m 48s

How your cut hair can help the environme...

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Most salons and barbershops send the hair they’ve cut to landfills — but what if it could be recycled instead? We hear about how hair clippings can be given a new lease on life, from creating bioplastic to mopping up oil spills. 
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