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Hair mat solution for environmental pollution

Hair mat solution for environmental pollution
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The hairdressers next to Belgium are sweeping and sachets the hair cut from customers and then delivering to a civil society organization that recycles to protect the environment. Hair Recycling project is made with a machine that can be used to absorb hair locks and hair strands, oil and other hydrocarbons that pollute the environment, or convert to bio-compozit bags. The Project Founder Patrick Janssen said that 1 kilogram of hair can be placed in the sewage to absorb 7-8 liters of oil and hydrocarbon before reaching the moisture of the mats.

takes 10 million times of weight
[[T]] On the website of the project, the hair has strong properties. About Us; a hair wire can carry 10 million times of its own weight and absorb hydrocarbons with oil, as well as in water due to keratin fibers and quite elastic. Isabelle Voulkidis, director of the Helyode lounge in Brussels, is one of the tens of hairdressers around the country, paying a small fee to gather haircuts. When I scan and cut the hair of one of the customers, "I personally motivate what I know that I can do very much with hair," she said that the hair is shameful of throwing into the trash."

Source: Environmental Protection