When a wool carpet surpasses its utility, it gets turned into secondary fuel for the cement industry, and the leftover chalk gets used for backing carpet tiles.

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Coloured yarn is tied to the wool web to create the carpet.

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Standing in bright sunlight filtered through the dirty windows of a giant self-storage warehouse in Queens, New York, Kevin Sudeith unfurls one carpet after another, unleashing a cloud of wool fibers and mothball fumes.

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