Processing poultry wastewater “sludge” for use in the pet food industry

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http://delawareway.blogspot.com/2014/09/look-out-new-castle-you-may-be-in-for.html#!/2014/09/look-out-new-castle-you-may-be-in-for.html
Update: (News Journal) Jeff Montgomery reports ~ Hearing needed for poultry sludge recycling plan - "Much of the waste now gets skimmed off and spread or plowed onto farm fields or recycled at company-owned operations. Those uses have generated complaints at times, including concerns about odors and polluted runoff.........A DNREC ruling on the application found that the company's plan triggered review under the Coastal Zone conservation law, which bars new heavy industries from a 275,000 acre zone along the edge of the Delaware River, Delaware Bay and Atlantic Coast."

Sierra Club writes ~

LEGAL NOTICE
DNREC, Office of the Secretary
September 28, 2014
Receipt of Application for a Coastal Zone Permit and Coastal Zone Act Public Hearing
Re: Green Recovery Technologies, LLC
...
In accordance with the Delaware Coastal Zone Act (7 Del. Code, Ch. 70) and the “Regulations Governing Delaware’s Coastal Zone,” this notice serves the purpose of both announcing that the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) has received an application from Green Recovery Technologies, LLC and will conduct a public hearing on the application received. The company is seeking a Coastal Zone permit to construct and operate a facility in the Riveredge Industrial Park, New Castle, that separates proteins and lipids from poultry processing wastewater “sludge” for use in the pet food industry. Environmental impacts to air quality are anticipated; the applicant has obtained emission reduction credits from the Delaware Economic Development Office as their offset.
The application is presently available for inspection at http://www.dnrec.delaware.gov/Admin/CZA/Pages/default.aspx.
The application is considered to be preliminarily, administratively complete and sufficient to proceed to public hearing. The public hearing will be held on Monday, October 20, 2014 at the DNREC office building at 391 Lukens Drive beginning at 6:00pm. Interested persons may contact Kevin Coyle at [phone] for more information.

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1. More about this at TruthaboutPetFood.com

Poultry Sludge Pet Food
October 1, 2014 in Pet Food Ingredients

A firm in Delaware is seeking a permit from local government to build a facility that recycles “poultry processing wastewater sludge” into a pet food ingredient. Protecting the environment – at the expense of our pets.

Green Recovery Technologies states they create “solutions that will leave our earth in better shape”. The company has applied to Delaware government for permit to build a poultry industry sludge processing plant. What is poultry industry sludge?

The poultry processing industry produces a great deal of wastewater. Sparing you some of the details (Click Here and Here to read more), during the poultry slaughter process bird carcasses are rinsed numerous times. Some blood, some internal organs, some feces end up in that water – but mostly it is just dirty, nasty water.

Read more at http://truthaboutpetfood.com/poultry-sludge-pet-food/

Industrial wastewater is an environmental problem. However, pet food should NOT be the dumping ground for the industrial sludge.

By the way…No…the pet food consumer would not be informed if the animal fat, poultry fat, or chicken fat would be sourced from poultry sludge.