USP - Ajuyah <ajuyah_a@SAMOA.NET> wrote:
>Mr. William B. Chute the Operations Manager of Crest Chicken Limited
>Fiji wants your professional advice on how to efficiently handle the
>waste from their abattoir that currently process 25,000 broiler chickens
>per day with the following waste:-
>water = 8 gallons per bird per day.
>solid = 5% per bird per day

I will be in Indonesia to visit the abattoir-farm in Bali and to help
design an integrated biosystem early next year, so I would love to be in
Fiji again. The major difference with your Crest Chicken abattoir and the
abattoir-farm in Indonesia is the very large volume of waste water at Crest
Chicken. My attention is drawn immediately to water reuse (or by efficient
use) and using wastewater as a resource for aquaculture. There are
certainly opportunities to generate income from the wastes available and at
the same time making them less polluting to the environment.

My interest is in low cost integrated bio-systems which can be applied for
large scale operations. I am tremendously cautious when introducing
"high-tech" high-investments sub-systems, particularly those that are still
tested in pilot demonstrations in developed countries, and even if they are
"matured" technologies, the transfer of such a package technology to Fiji
needs considerable evaluation and re-evaluation. The S Pacific Island
States in the recent years have suffered in economic growth due to reduced
international market demands of local products. To stay competitive it
needs to make full use of its resources (wastes included) and/or to reduce
costs by developing income-generating activities so that the unemployed can
create new livelihoods by using the wastes.

I am now involved and responsible to conduct two feasibility studies,
sponsored of the Institute of Advanced Studies of the United Nations
University (Tokyo):
(a) to develop a project proposal at the abattoir-farm in Indonesia and to
see how income-generating activities could be developed for the
neighborhood squatter families
(b) to establish a "Sub-Group on Breweries" under the aegis of the UNEP IE
Working Group on Cleaner Production in the Food Industry. This feasibility
study will be conducted in cooperation with the UNEP IE Cleaner production
Programme and the UNEP-UNIDO National Cleaner Production Centres Programme.
(http://home2.swipnet.se/~w-25860/jacky/sbg

There are common concepts and approaches in all of them.

I wish to know more about what CC is doing with the wastewater and solids ?
 

regards
Jacky Foo
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