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.
The author is Brendan Greeley, and the subtitle is 500 Years of the World’s
Most Powerful Money. A very well-timed book, excellent on the history of
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