Swords to ploughshares? Well, kind of...

It is condoms to hair bands in this case.

It could be that someone is pulling our collective leg, of course, but so far no one called the bluff.

Used condoms are being recycled into hair bands in southern China, threatening to spread sexually-transmittable diseases they were originally meant to prevent, state media reported Tuesday.

If you are interested in technical details, more here.

Thankfully, I don't need a hair band anymore...