Using chicken feathers and solid remains of grapes to develop eco-friendly materials
Wednesday, October 24, 2018 - 08:20
in Earth & Climate
Food industry waste management is a critical issue, considering the environmental and health hazards involved with production and processing. For example, the poultry industry generates a vast amount of feather waste every year, most of which ends up in landfill or goes through an energy-intensive process to be converted into low-grade animal feed. According to the European Commission, 13.1 million tonnes of poultry meat were produced in the EU in 2014.