{"id":10326,"date":"2016-04-10T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-10T08:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-innovators-greener-home-insulation-to-feather-your-nest\/"},"modified":"2016-04-10T15:16:30","modified_gmt":"2016-04-10T08:16:30","slug":"the-innovators-greener-home-insulation-to-feather-your-nest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-innovators-greener-home-insulation-to-feather-your-nest\/","title":{"rendered":"The innovators: greener home insulation to feather your nest"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe air-trapping properties of feathers \u2013 a by-product of poultry farming that often goes straight to landfill \u2013 are being put to use by studentsThe ability of chickens to stay warm in winter has inspired a new energy-efficient home insulation product developed by students at Imperial College London.Around 900m chickens are slaughtered each year by the poultry industry, producing 2,000 tonnes of feather waste a week, most of which ends up in landfill or goes through an energy-intensive process to be made into animal feed. But what else could be done with it? Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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