Tag: Dyson School of Design Engineering

Waste chicken feathers could help insulate homes

Each year Britain processes more than 945 million white-feathered broiler chickens, the type found in our supermarkets and used by fast-food chains. That’s a lot of leftover feathers. Two PhD students from Imperial College London are working on a method to turn this chicken feather waste into a useful product. Elena Dieckmann from the Dyson School of Design Engineering, alongside Ryan Robinson from the National Heart and Lung Institute, founded start-up Aeropowder in early 2016. […]