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Our House Has Feathers

If you were little pig being stalked by big bad wolf you probably would not use chicken feathers to build your house. You would probably use them to stuff pillows instead. However a new research scientist shows that chicken feathers can make surprisingly durable composite boards. Recycling waste chicken feathers into composite boards that than convention cement and woods fiber composite boards. Chicken meat is a popular food in the country with the average people devouring about 8 kg of chicken meat per year.

To satisfy the chicken cravings of 80 million broiler  chickens every year. Since feathers account for about 6 percent of a mature chickens total weight the poultry industry generates about 2.4 million tons of waste chicken feathers every year. These feathers are usually incinerated buried or processing into low quality animals feeds. But inceneration causes air pollution and recycled animals feed can spread dieseases like bird flu.