Feeding Food Waste to Pigs Could Save Vast Swathes of Threatened Forest and Savannah
Wednesday, December 9, 2015 - 14:46
in Earth & Climate
New research suggests that feeding our food waste, or swill, to pigs (currently banned under EU law) could save 1.8 million hectares of global agricultural land - an area roughly half the size of Germany, including hundreds of thousands of acres of South America's biodiverse forests and savannahs - and provide a use for the 100 million tonnes of food wasted in the EU each year.