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Aligning Resources By Dr. Charles Starkey, Renderers have always been the standard-bearers in reducing waste and the nonuse of so many items through upcycling protein and fat products that do not reduce food waste and prevent loss. Along with other partner goals are achievable. Agency’s wasted food scale, rendering is the largest industry involved in repurposing food waste towards necessary products. In North America alone, rendering accounts for over 30 million tons of food loss prevention and waste. Rendering is the only method that can properly process animal and meat products without loss of nutrients and additional greenhouse gas An important limitation to rendering is that it is not possible for the industry to adequately process plant equipment available. This is where collaborative efforts should be implemented. for over 20 million tons of food it’s a great way to reduce the overall tonnage of this unused doesn’t work as well for animal-sourced products. It is harder to achieve proper heat to destroy pathogens for animal by-products, which sourced products also allows higher GHG emissions into the atmosphere, including products like ammonia, methane and which have greater negative www.rendermagazine.com of livestock manure and municipal sludge waste is a proven method to generate reusable energy in the form of methane consumer needs. AD is also a great avenue for liquid brewery and beverage waste. digest more solid plant and animal-sourced feedstocks, however, because of the need to continually incorporate additional By working together, all these technologies combined can 65 million tons of preventable food loss and waste, the only way to accomplish our goals is to work together and apply the correct technologies for the variable product streams. NARA would like to have your support to reintroduce — as the largest technique by tonnage, — to the overall goals R WHAT MATERIALS ARE RENDERED? Packing Plants 147.2 MILLIONhead of cattle, calves, hogs & sheep are slaughtered annually in the US 10 BILLION chickens and turkeys are processed each year in the US WHAT ARE THE PRODUCTS OF RENDERING? Renderers collect: 56BILLION POUNDS of raw materials every year in the U.S. and Canada If all renderable product was sent to the landfill, all available space would be used in 4 YEARS Render 47
