Posted on 01/21/2015 5:42:03 PM PST by DogByte6RER
Recycled whisky waste has £140m potential
• The Scotch whisky industry could generate £140 million through recycling whisky wastes into fish feed for Scotland’s fish farming industry and help build a more circular economy.
The possibility was highlighted in the Circular Economy Scotland report, which examines how the certain sectors such as oil and gas and the food industry can use their strengths to generate millions of pounds worth of value from materials used in these areas.
It suggested the whisky industry could continue to capture heat and electricity from whisky wastes, but biorefining wastes could produce two more products in the forms of protein meal for fish farming and phytosterols, which help manage cholesterol levels.
The fish meal created would be wroth approximately £1,500 per tonne, significantly more than the £50 per tonne for pot ale syrup.
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This recycled whiskey to fish food sort of turns that old W.C. Fields quote on its head ... "I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it."
Farmers in this country feed sour mash to cattle.
Actually its kind of funny how liberals assume that only they can force recycling when industry has been doing this sort of thing all along.
Kingsford Charcoal was created by evil industrialist Henry Ford who hated to see all of his wood scraps going to waste.
True. Spent mushroom growing medium is an excellent fertilizer/mulch. Entire industries are dependent on secondary waste from foodstuff to plastic. Liberal rats only think they know everything.
Whisky waste....Wait a minute, I’ve been called that!
I could never understand the concept of buying charcoal. Why not just sell you wood chips- instead of wood that’s half burnt already?
Must have been what was left after he used his suppliers crates to make the beds of his trucks.
Unions claim that they are the reason we have a standard 8 hour weekday but again its a flat out lie. Henry Ford led the way on shorter workdays because he was burning his employees out at 6 and 7 12 hour days. He wrote to Edison I think it was and told him that he had to hire 1000 to keep 100. He cut their hours to 8 hours per day and increased their pay from less than $3 per day to $5 per day and ran 3 shifts. (Edison thought Ford was a fool) He had some 10,000 people show up looking for work.
His reasons weren’t entirely altruistic. He was creating buyers for his products. Those employees were also spending money in the wider economy and creating still more customers for Ford.
Unfortunately, today’s taxation and regulatory burden make such innovation impossible. Instead, we have democrats demanding that companies pay more at the same time they continue to load on tax and regulation.
I watch a show on the American Heroes Channel that looks at the popular history vs the real history of things from the standpoint of actual existing evidence.
They first wanted plastic bags to save trees. Then paper to get rid of plastic. Then canvas bags that grow all sorts of mold and germs.
And they only recycle those things for which there is no market.
W.C. was asked why he never drank water:
“An abominable substance, my boy, fish f*** in it!”
;^)
Because charcoal burns far hotter than uncharred wood.
I’ve got a gas grill but I actually like to use charcoal sometimes. I also use charcoal to start bonfires.
So he didn’t use suppliers crate lumber for his truck beds? Not sure I’m following you.
He might have used crate lumber if it was up to his standards but I don’t know for sure. It was never mentioned.
I read that as part of the bidding for suppliers he asked for specific standards for the crating so that he could use it for truck beds. Maybe it’s not true. Wouldn’t be the first time I got suckered.
The beer industry used to sell spent grains to the cattle industry for the pretty much the cost of hauling. It was less expensive than landfill it and provided the beef business a source of high carbs. This practice took place for decades.
Then the FDA got involved (about 2013). They said there was not a reliable “chain of custody”. There was no evidence of beef contamination from these grains, only the chance there could be (some day).So the FDA regulated that the spent grains needed alls sorts of testing not to mention certification on the haulers.
So many brewers now landfill at a higher expense. Cattle ranchers are paying more for feed. And many smaller brewers are hurting due to high landfill costs.
Might work over there. Here the FDA would kill that idea.
Beer brewers push back against proposed FDA rule restricting use of old grains
“Beer brewers are objecting to a proposed federal rule that would make it harder for breweries to sell leftover grains as animal feed instead of throwing them away.
The Food and Drug Administration rule change would mean brewers would have to meet the same standards as livestock and pet-food manufacturers, imposing new sanitary handling procedures, record keeping and other food safety processes on brewers.
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Beer makers complain that the new rules, if adopted, would force them to dump millions of tons of “spent grains,” which are left over after barley, wheat and other grains are steeped in hot water.
Bear Republic brewmaster Rich Norgrove says the rules would be costly and force brewers to dump the grains, instead of the more sustainable practice of feeding them to livestock
http://www.foxnews.com/leisure/2014/04/01/beer-brewers-angry-about-proposed-fda-rule/
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