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The recycling of used cooking oils and inedible by-products from the meat processing industries into useable products like fats and protein meals
(inedible to edible) |
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| Where do bones, offal, hair, feathers, blood, and downer cows mostly come from? |
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Abattoirs
(more common now for downer cows to be composted rather than rendered) |
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| Where do used cooking oils mostly come from? |
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| Where do mortalities mostly come from? |
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| Where do bones and fat come from mostly? |
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| Packinghouses, butcher shops, grocery stores, further processors |
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| What is the main ingredient in the raw material? |
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| Water! Hardest part is to remove it! |
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| How is material processed? |
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- water evapourated
- bacteria and viruses sterilized
- protein and fat separated |
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| What are the three customers of rendered products, and what percentage of the industry to they take up? |
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75% Feed Industry
20% Manufacturing
5% Petfood Industry |
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| What are some examples of products that come from rendering? |
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| Soap, explosives, cosmetics, perfumes, lubricants, pet food, fertilizer |
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| What are some raw materials commonly used in the rendering process? |
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| hides, skin, feathers, hooves, horns, heads, rgans, intestines, fat tissues, cooking oils, bones |
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