The air-trapping properties of feathers – a by-product of poultry farming that often goes straight to landfill – are being save to use by studentsThe ability of chickens to stay warm in winter has inspired a unique energy-efficient home insulation product developed by students at Imperial College London.
Around 900m chickens are slaughtered each year by the poultry industry,producing 2000 tonnes of feather waste a week, most of which ends up in landfill or goes through an energy-intensive process to be made into animal feed. But what else could be done with it?Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com