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- Innovators around the world are finding creative ways to recycle things we throw away.
- Human hair can soak up oil spills, while used coffee grounds can be made into sunglasses frames.
- We found out how companies are repurposing old chopsticks, flip
- A company is shredding, melting, and molding a secret mixture of hard-to-recycle plastics to make solid bricks and beams.
- The building materials are cheaper and faster to assemble than most traditional ones.
- The system has helped in