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Ronald Thompson, a hairdresser working with South Bank University in London, has created a new material he thinks might eventually replace fibreglass - made of hair.
Thompson believes there are thousands of tonnes of hair going to waste each year, and has written to Ken Livingstone, among others, asking for donations so that he can get his hands on plenty of shorn tresses. Ken's not got too much of his own to offer, but as Mayor of London I suppose he could the process going.
"I picked up a piece of fibreglass, which snapped when I stretched it. Then I did the same with a strand of hair, which didn't. That sparked my thinking about how we could make use of all this spare hair to make a stronger fibreglass-type product that is environmentally friendly and sustainable."
Despite the fact that rhino horn, among other things, is constructed of hair, I'm not sure if we'll all be sitting on hair chairs in the future. Still...
