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billion pounds of renderable raw materials produced in the
vapor and then it’s condensed. From there, that water will go into the wastewater treatment system for that plant. Now it’s to have fats and proteins, it’s strictly going to be a vapor.
Again, the water will drop out of the condenser and then go
It can either be run through an evaporator and in doing so the
it, you can boil it again, run it through a heat exchanger and
might use it for wash water or something else, but eventually
Reusing/Recycling
of environmental affairs in North America. Recently, he guidelines for wastewater discharges from meat and poultry
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At press time, the environmental nongovernmental catalyst for those proposed changes, have since appealed the agency’s decision not to move forward. All sides now await
treatment plant, then it is discharged either down a pipe to
is typically formalized in an industrial discharge permit
fees they collect from renderers and industrial users that are an important source of revenue for them.
On the other hand, he points out that reusing treated volumes of wastewater to treat at the municipal level, reduced
volumes of this captured water for uses such as cooling, core to how the industry operates, reducing reliance on new
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managers told him about one such example.
Even though water is a renewable resource, in some parts
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