Discarded human hair is now been used to clean up pollutants

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One kilogram of hair can absorb seven to eight liters of oil and hydrocarbons.

that a lab at Nanyang Technological University , Singapore, grew crops — leafy vegetables, micro greens, rocket leaves, and the Chinese cabbage bok choy — using discarded hair collected from salon floors."Our products are all the more ethical as they are manufactured locally... they are not imported from the other side of the planet," told EuroNews project co-founder Patrick Janssen. "They are made here to deal with local problems.

"What motivates me, personally, is that I find it a shame hair is nowadays just thrown in the bin when I know that so much could be done with it," she concluded.with an impressive new technique that saw human hair waste recycled into flexible displays that may be used in smart devices. The scientists succeeded in turning small hair strands into carbon nanodots, uniform dots that are one-millionth of a millimeter.

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