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Making Use of Poultry Litter

Researchers at Virginia Tech are converting poultry litter — the mixture of sawdust and droppings under cages — to biofuels, adhesives and fertilizer.
When the poultry litter is heated to a high temperature, the vapor that results can be condensed into a bio-oil fuel that can be used in diesel engines. Another part of the process [...]