Chicken feathers being turned into biodegradable flower pots
Walter Schmidt, of the ASR Environmental Management and Byproduct Utilization Laboratory in Beltsville, Md., has been developing practical uses for discarded chicken feathers. 4 billon pounds of feathers each year are discarded in the US.
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