The Right Storage Container Protects Patrons and Employees
Sure, the correct container makes the collection more straightforward, but it also keeps you and your patrons safe. It’s essential to have the right container to hold meat by-products provided by your collection service. It should be rated for its environment and be able to be closed securely.
If Left in the Open, By-Products can Spread Disease
Raw meat can be breeding grounds for bacteria and viruses if improperly handled or undercooked—it’s why most restaurants serving meat or seafood will have a disclaimer at the bottom of the menu.
When meat by-products get thrown in a dumpster, they are in the perfect environment to foster these diseases. While most harm resides in consuming these discarded products, they can still contribute to waste-borne diseases that pollute the air and water.
Proper Storage Containers Keep Wildlife Out
One of the ways these diseases spread is also through wildlife and vermin who raid your trash cans and dumpsters. Wild animals can be dangerous for your employees accessing the dumpster.
The Landfill Problem
The narrative that landfills are this boogieman of our environmental downfall isn’t 100% off the mark. In Canada alone, landfills produce 56.5 million tonnes of greenhouse gasses yearly. Emissions like methane and carbon dioxide are significant contributors to climate change.
Lack of Space is Concerning
One major problem with landfills is that we’re running out of room for them. Despite the world’s efforts to reduce waste, we’re still producing trash and running out of places to put it. Some areas will be out of landfill space in the next 7-10 years.
Organic Materials Release Greenhouse Gases When They Decompose
Food waste is the number one contributor to harmful greenhouse gas emissions from landfills. If food wastes were a country, it would be the third largest producer of greenhouse gasses, only behind China and the United States.
To say that simply dumping these animal by-products is an understatement. Both small dumpsters and giant landfills come with their fair share of hazards, long-term and short-term.
Agricultural Rendering is Incredibly Good for the Environment
Luckily, we have a better option. Agricultural rendering (or animal by-product rendering) creates a new life for these by-products. They get reused and repurposed, not putting any more pollutants into landfills.
Rendering counteracts much of the damage done by throwing by-products in the trash. The North American Renderers Association (NARA) states that rendering sequesters five times the amount of greenhouse gasses it produces during the process.
Not only that, but recycling stops any excess animal products in landfills. According to NARA, landfills would be at capacity in four years if we stopped rendering animal by-products today.
Recycling Creates Opportunities
Agricultural rendering and recycling is one small piece of the climate crisis puzzle, but what do we do with the final products?
It creates a renewable resource for soaps, wax, and adhesives.
Nutrition for People and Pets
We eat many everyday items created from rendering — animal by-products make gelatin, tallow, and lard. Turning “inedible” parts of an animal into something edible is one incredible thing that recycling does. Rendered animal fat has vitamins A, D, E, and K necessary for complete nutrition for your family.
Every animal by-product is full of untapped nutrients. One thing Darling Ingredients Canada does is safely process these by-products to create nutrient-dense meals used in pet food. These ingredients are safe, healthy, and sustainable.
Stay Safe With Darling Ingredients Canada
The effects of meat by-product pickup services are global and can help the local community. Keeping diseases out of the watershed and deterring animals from getting too close to employees and patrons immediately impacts what’s closest to you.
But you can’t deny the incredible impact rendering has on the environment. We can help solve the landfill problem and actively remove greenhouse gasses from the atmosphere by simply utilizing what is already there.
Darling Ingredients Canada proudly offers sustainable solutions to food industry partners nationwide. Contact us today to set up meat collection services for your business. 1-800-263-0302
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