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Article: The economics of recycling food residuals
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- BioCycle
- Article date:
- April 1, 1997
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CopyrightCopyright J.G. Press Inc. Apr 1997. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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New technologies, changing costs of disposal alternatives, and institutional factors such as mandatory recycling and pollution controls, are impacting the economics of reprocessing organics.
The value-added approach of converting food residuals to useful end products has led to utilization as animal feed. It has been estimated that while screened compost has a value of about $25 per ton FOB, some food residuals with a high protein content have a value of $250 per ton FOB. However, significant processing must be incurred to create these value added products. Nationwide, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency estimates that food residuals account for nearly seven percent of the municipal ...