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.
When a new technology promises large private benefits but may impose social
costs that markets do not price, demand need not reveal how citizens want
it ...
