Justin Barone was a researcher with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington when he discovered the surplus. Chicken feathers. Tons of them, spewing from processing plants on Virginia’s ...

Plastics have a lot of issues–made from oil, they’re often not recycled, and they end up in landfills. You might not consider soft, fluffy chicken feathers as problematic, but billions pounds of them ...

If you're a home gardener you may soon find that the pots you buy flowers and plants in are made from chicken feathers. Yes, tons of feathers that go to waste every year can now be transformed into ...

In an effort to be more efficient and use every part of the animal, scientists have discovered a way to create plastic from chicken feathers. Developed by researchers at the University of Nebraska, ...