From the April 2000 Scientific American Magazine | 1 comments

Car Parts from Chickens ( Preview )

Researchers hatch a plan to make plastic from feathers

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Nearly a decade ago poultry-processing plants around the nation asked researchers at the Department of Agriculture to solve a big environmental problem: find a more efficient way to dispose of the

four billion pounds of chicken feathers produced annually in the U.S. What they were expecting was a method by which the feathers could be made

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