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“Coming out of the proof of concept we knew we could make poultry feed from food waste, there’s no question about that. But the question of whether we can meet the very rigorous industry standards demanded by the poultry industry made the scientific evaluation critical,” he says.
Boyle has been working with the University of Western Sydney (UWS), the Poultry Hub at the University of New England and RMR Process
on the solution.
Taitoko told F&DB once UWS
completed the proof of concept, RMR started working on scaling it to a pilot facility. “We’re currently building it in Geelong,” he says.
The facility is made up of five or six modules or containers. Each of those represents waste coming from a particular stream, for example a butchery, bakery, café or nursing home.
Because of its start-up nature, RMR sourced equipment and
technology from all over the country to demonstrate its capabilities. “It is a low through-put pilot facility to prove we can scale it up from proof of concept,” Taitoko says.
The various waste streams are captured and isolated, brought to the facility, processed through Boyle’s patented system and converted into chicken feed. (See diagram.)
“What you end up with is a shelf stable powder or crumb product at the end of that. There’s also a liquid fertiliser that comes out of it which we’re also developing, called Second Life,” Boyle says.
“It’s like your nan making a cake – you take a bit from this stream, this stream and this stream to make your specific chicken feed.”
“Once it’s operating we can scale it up and it can be used anywhere in the world,” Taitoko says. Doyle and Taitoko emphasise that it is an industrial food process. Doyle
says it is not a rubbish process and contamination risk means it should not be “anywhere near” a high risk area, like a waste facility. He says Food Recycle can be carried out
on a poultry farm, or in an industrial area, resulting in food for chooks being onsite in around 36 hours from being scraped into the bin. ✷
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