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Thursday, July 17, 2008

Construction material using chicken feathers













Can you believe this guys. Instead of wasting all the Chicken feathers construction materials are being made. This makes disposal of large quantities of chicken feathers easy and useful too.

Conventional waste disposal methods cannot be applied to chicken feathers, referring to problems such as burning, burial or recycling the feathers for use in low-quality animal feeds.

Incineration releases greenhouse gases and the chicken feathers take up a lot of space in landfills and take a long time to decay because of the keratin protein that make up the feathers.

There is also the fear of bird flu, which makes converting chicken feathers into animal feeds undesirable. Thus a solution for all this is using the chicken feathers for making construction materials. By this way they are not wasted and disposed in a safe and useful manner.

A Filipino scientist says that he has created a new composite building board made of chicken feathers that could be a major breakthrough for the construction industry.

Experimental boards are made of a mixture of waste chicken feathers and cement . The material, resistant to the region’s termites, is a way to dispose of millions of kg of waste feathers.


The material made of compressed cement and chicken feathers, could be widely used for housing. Boards now made with wood chips, are easily ruined by hungry insects.The composite boards are resistant to insect infestation such as termites because the feathers are inedible.


They are also not as flammable or combustible as conventional cement and wood-fibre composite boards.

Feather boards could be used for paneling, ceilings and as insulation but not for weight-bearing building components like walls or pillars.

1 comment:

Mahendra-Jambi said...

ya, its not impossible but possible thing, and also its recycling turn !
(http://mahen-jambi.blogspot.com )