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Now there’s a business idea -figure out something to do with the 2-3 Billion pounds of waste chicken feathers produced annually.
by smithcoin 3y ago
Now there’s a business idea -figure out something to do with the 2-3 Billion pounds of waste chicken feathers produced annually.
- Loughla 3y agoFeather meal, animal feed, disposable diapers, and fuel for incinerators to heat/power plants are the existing uses that I know about from just Tyson Foods. Food production is super highly optimized; I have to imagine this exists already in most plants.
- garrickvanburen 3y agoThis is consistent with my understanding that everything that can be sold out of an animal processing plant already is.
- Cthulhu_ 3y agoYeah exactly, nothing from an animal is wasted, they're too expensive for that.
- KineticLensman 3y agoIt used to be said that they use every part of a pig except the oink.
- ArnoVW 3y agoMy in laws run a company that use hydrolysis to extract amino acids from waste feathers. Sells them to the pet food industry
- svrtknst 3y agoone idea could be to produce less chickens
- karmakurtisaani 3y agoBut how do we stuff our faces with excessive amounts of meat then?
- rsynnott 3y agoOh, that's been done; biofuel. It has actually become a bit of a _problem_ in some places AIUI; in countries where coal has been largely or entirely eliminated, it can end up being responsible for a surprisingly large fraction of atmospheric mercury emissions.