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Plants and poultry

Richard's team of materials scientists have created a circuit board made from soya-bean oils and chicken feathers - totally natural and renewable materials that stop us having to rely on plastics from oil.

They've also found a way to recycle some of the billion kilograms of waste chicken feathers produced every year in America - that's heavier than the QE2! Turning feathers into phone parts stops them being burned or buried.



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Every year America produces waste chicken feathers weighing more than the QE2.
Every year America produces waste chicken feathers weighing more than the QE2.
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