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| Use | Kind of hair required | Knowledge/Skills/Technology requireda | Post-Consumer reusability/recyclabilityb | Potential users/markets | Nature of market |
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| Wigs, Hair extensions, and so forth | Long, undamaged | KS | Type 2 | Fashion-conscious individuals, patients suffering hair loss | High value,
high volume |
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| Soil nutrient (without chemical processing) | Any kind, without toxic contamination | K | Type 1 | Farmers, gardeners, and households having garden/potted plants | Low value,
high volume, and
high need |
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| Soil nutrient (chemically decomposed hair) | Any kind, without toxic contamination | KST | Type 1 | Farmers, gardeners, and households having garden/potted plants | Low value,
high volume, and
high need |
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| Pest repellent | Any kind | K | Type 1 because decays in nature eventually | Farmers, gardeners, and households having garden/potted plants | Low value,
high volume, and
high need |
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| Stuffing of mattresses, coats, toys, and so forth | Any kind, except very small ones (<1 inch) | K | Type 1 | Furniture makers, toy makers, artists, and so forth | Low value,
high volume, and
high need |
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| Hair fabric, interlining cloth, and felt | Any kind except small ones (<2 inch) | KS | Type 2 | Coat tailors, garment enterprises, artists, and producers of mats | Medium/high value,
low volume |
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| Ropes | Any kind except small ones (<2 inch) | KS | Type 2 | Anyone | Medium value,
low volume |
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| Hair embroidery, hairwork | Long, smooth hair | KS | Type 2;
Type 3, if hair embedded in a resin | Artists, religious institutions, art connoisseurs, home decorators | High value,
medium volume |
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| Suturing in surgery | Long, undamaged hair of medium thickness | KS | Type 1 if decomposed along with biomedical waste | Medical personnel | Medium/high value, low volume |
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| Reinforcement of construction materials | Any kind | K | Type 1, clay reinforcement;
Type 3, concrete reinforcement | Households, architects, designers, and construction workers | Low value,
high volume, and
high need |
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| Oil spill remediation, effluent water treatment | Any kind, except very small (<1 inch) | K | Type 1 if coupled with mushroom growing and composting and without toxic contamination | Petroleum industry, oil refineries, sewage treatment, and water supply departments | Low value,
high volume, and
high need |
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| Hair-hydrolyzed protein | Any kind | KST | Type 1 | Hair care industry | High value,
low volume |
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| Extracting amino acids | Any kind except contaminated and chemically treated hair | KST | Type 1 | Agriculture, food processing, and pharmaceutical industries | Medium/low value,
high volume |
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| Traditional Medicine | Uncontaminated, undamaged hair | KS | Type 1 | Traditional medicine practitioners, patients | Low value,
low volume, and
high need |
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| Testing material for hair care products | All kinds | According to the experiments | Type 3 | Hair care industry | Medium value,
low volume |
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| Cosmetic brushes | Undamaged hair | KST | Type 3 | Fashion conscious people (mostly women), theatre personnel | Medium value,
low volume |
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| Hair hygroscope | Long, undamaged hair (>12 inch) | KST | Type 2 | Meteorologist, Scientific institutions | Medium value,
low volume |
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| Nesting material for birds | Any kind but ~3 inch or smaller | K | Type 1 as it decay in nature eventually | Environmentalists, horticulturists, and gardeners | Low value,
low volume |
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| Removing dyes, other pollutants | Any kind | KST | Type 3 | Industries having effluents, pollution control organizations | Low value,
high volume |
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| Board and furniture | Any kind | KST | Type 3, compostable if resin is biodegradable | Furniture makers, fabric shops for mannequins | Medium value,
high volume |
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| Engineering biomaterials | Any kind, uncontaminated | KST | Type 1 | Medical doctors, researchers | High value,
low volume |
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| Composites as dielectric | Any kind | KST | Type 3 | Electrical power sector, scientific institutions | High value,
low volume |
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| Flexible microelectrodes | Any kind, except small (<1 inch) | KST | Type 2 | Scientific Institutions | High value,
low volume |
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