Chicken Electronics a Technology Plucked from Waste

By Frazer, Lance

Book Id: WPLBN0000043746
Format Type: PDF eBook:
File Size: 3.37 MB
Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	Chicken Electronics a Technology Plucked from Waste
Author:	Frazer, Lance
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Language:	English
Subject:	Government publications, United Nations., United Nations. Office for Disarmament Affairs
Collections:	Government Library Collection, Disarmament Documents
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Publisher:	United Nations- Office for Disarmament Affairs (Unoda)


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Government Reference Publication

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Excerpt: The 8 billion?plus broilers produced each year by the U.S. poultry industry leave behind some 3 billion pounds of waste feathers. Traditional disposal strategies are less than perfect. Feathers can be processed into a low-grade animal feed, but this demands water and energy. They also can be incinerated or buried, which involves storage, handling, and, for incinerated feathers, emissions control and ash disposal. Richard Wool, director of the Affordable Composites from Renewable Sources (ACRES) program at the University of Delaware, believes hes found a way to use these feathers that kills two birds with one stone, so to speak. Wools solution is a collaboration with poultry giant Tyson Foods to explore manufacture of another resource-depleting necessity?the circuit board?using chicken feathers.