Meat and bone meal as a source of phosphorus
Tuesday, December 1, 2015 - 09:40
in Health & Medicine
Slaughterhouse waste is processed into meat and bone meal and subsequently fed to livestock or incinerated. This meal could be put to better use, though. It contains phosphorus, a scarce mineral used as fertilizer. A new system burns meal, producing ash that could be used as the raw material for phosphorus fertilizer.