02-23-2009, 11:49 PM
[font "Arial"][#000000][size 3]Scientists turn beer waste into fish food[/size][/#000000][/font]
"Fish eat other fish," Logan said."The fish meal industry sends ships out to catch non-food grade fish species and those are ground up into fish meal. But this source of fish meal is more and more limited. The production is maxed out."Breweries have long faced a problem in properly disposing of waste materials that come from brewing hops and barley. Much like a sewage plant, breweries have to have large settling ponds to treat the sludge.
using a waste stream from New Belgium Brewery and turning it into fish feed
Belgium Brewery in Fort Collins could someday end up saving fisheries all over the world.
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?s...&catid=339
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"Fish eat other fish," Logan said."The fish meal industry sends ships out to catch non-food grade fish species and those are ground up into fish meal. But this source of fish meal is more and more limited. The production is maxed out."Breweries have long faced a problem in properly disposing of waste materials that come from brewing hops and barley. Much like a sewage plant, breweries have to have large settling ponds to treat the sludge.
using a waste stream from New Belgium Brewery and turning it into fish feed
Belgium Brewery in Fort Collins could someday end up saving fisheries all over the world.
http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?s...&catid=339
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