USA to follow UK example in using turkey droppings for power
Turkey droppings will be used to produce clean power for 55,000 homes in the USA following the success of three poultry litter plants already built in England. The Minnesota-based facility will be the first large-scale plant of its type in the USA and the largest in the world.
The 55MW plant will burn 700,000 tons of dung a year and produce fertilizer as a by-product -
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