Waste Audit and Options Evaluation

This family owned agribusiness produces meat, cheese and dairy products from its own cattle herd and pig farm. Environmental Biotechnology Limited was commissioned to review waste treatment options and to evaluate existing and potential benefits of the anaerobic digestion system on site.

Parameters studied included capital and operating cost, site waste inventory, biogas use, and by-product recovery. System modifications were reviewed which would ensure continued and optimised operation. EBL also undertook a reivew of odour problems in the vicinity.

EBL submitted a report to the client which proposed a number of waste treatment options for the agro-industrial activities on site. This included an economic review of the implications of these improvements and a detailed estimate of the capital costs for each option. As a result of this study the company rationalised its commercial activities, ceasing pig production and decommissioning and its effluent treatment plant.

 

850m3 Agricultural Digestion Plant