How does feed for livestock affect those commodity prices?

[Jackov Altraids]

I’ve always found food waste is in the wrong place for animals that need the feed

Because the market share lies in such few hands, instead of coming to us to buy produce, we pay to take it to them and then have to pay to bring any waste back all in the name of making then more efficient.

 

[thesilentone]

Because the market share lies in such few hands, instead of coming to us to buy produce, we pay to take it to them and then have to pay to bring any waste back all in the name of making then more efficient.

A big problem !

The large waste Companies bread and butter is the food manufacturers waste contract.

If you make things (food) waste is not your area of expertise, so it's simple if someone turns up on a regular basis and takes it away, in their containers, in their trucks.

These contracts are for years, so a very strong case to do something different needs to put forward, with a service that supports it.

For AD these guys have it sorted:

Doncaster - ReFood

Our first UK plant located in Doncaster, South Yorkshire which became operational in Summer 2011.

refood.co.uk

 

[DaveGrohl]

I have this image in my head of an industrial wasteland, sometime in the middle future. Forlorn people desperately searching for a source of food and warmth that requires no energy source as there is none.
They all stand still with joy and amazement at a small flock of sheep ambling by nibbling on the patches of weeds and they suddenly see the perfect solution to all their problems.......

There is no doubt in my mind that this is precisely what will happen at some point in the future. The penny will drop. But the thick barstewards will probably eat all of the animals before they get a chance to breed and then they’ll be truly stuffed.

 

[Courier]

A big problem !

The large waste Companies bread and butter is the food manufacturers waste contract.

If you make things (food) waste is not your area of expertise, so it's simple if someone turns up on a regular basis and takes it away, in their containers, in their trucks.

These contracts are for years, so a very strong case to do something different needs to put forward, with a service that supports it.

For AD these guys have it sorted:

Doncaster - ReFood

Our first UK plant located in Doncaster, South Yorkshire which became operational in Summer 2011.

refood.co.uk

Is that not part of Prosper de Mulder or a phoenix company where the solvent method of dealing with animal carcasses was developed leading to BSE exploding ?

 

[thesilentone]

Is that not part of Prosper de Mulder or a phoenix company where the solvent method of dealing with animal carcasses was developed leading to BSE exploding ?

Don't know, as far as I'm aware, they are part of SARIA now or similar. I think ReFood are quite a young Company.

However it looks like SARIA took over PDM in 2014, so long after BSE

NB: Found this, https://www.saria.co.uk/news/2016/saria_group_acquires_remaining_shares_uk_subsidiary_saria_ltd.html


Great business model, if you need food waste for your AD Plant, buy the waste Company