Food waste produced in UK households will soon become a major part of livestock diets, an expert suggests.
Tristram Stuart, lecturer at Sussex University and author of Waste: Uncovering the Global Food Scandal, suggests that the government will soon allow food waste to be used in animal feed once again, Farmers Weekly reports.
He goes on to suggest that the move will come as the authorities face up to the problem of what to do with more than 20 million tonnes of food waste.
Mr Stuart told the publication that food waste has been unfairly blamed for causing a health crisis in the livestock market.
"There's never been any scientific evidence that has proved or linked the feeding of processed waste food to pigs with foot-and-mouth or swine fever," he told the publication.
It was recently revealed that a new power plant in Rothes is to create energy and animal feed from the by-products of the whisky distillation process.
Typical Guttridge equipment used in the animal feed industry includes:
Conveyors – screw conveyors – chain conveyors – belt conveyors
