Circularity/Upcycling

Circularity/Upcycling

University team develops small-scale food waste recycling system

Compared with industrial-scale operations, which require significant infrastructure and staffing, this system is far more affordable and accessible.

Circularity/Upcycling

2026 International Rendering Symposium to explore communication, sustainability, resilience

The International Rendering Symposium, held in conjunction with the 2026 International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE) in Atlanta, will focus on strengthening science-based communication across animal agriculture, optimizing rendered ingredients for a sustainable feed future and addressing the risks and resilience challenges facing the industry.

Circularity/Upcycling

CPF, COTTO find way to repurpose eggshell waste

Charoen Pokphand Foods will supply eggshell waste to COTTO, which will use the shells to make sanitaryware products.

Newsfeed

Mill partnership with Whole Foods will reduce food waste at stores

Through a new partnership with Amazon, Mill will bring its product to Whole Foods Market stores to reduce in-store food waste.

Circularity/Upcycling

EPA restores rendering to national wasted food scale

NARA: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reinstated rendering in its food waste hierarchy following bipartisan congressional advocacy and industry pressure.

Agriculture Technology

How Cargill uses digital tools to improve animal health, productivity

Guillaume Smeets, Cargill Animal Nutrition and Health’s senior vice president, strategic marketing and technology, explains how artificial intelligence contributes to the growth of the company’s feed and additives portfolio.

Alternative Protein

Could mushroom stems offer a low-cost soybean alternative?

Initial feeding trials suggest good results in layers, but limited benefits for broilers.

Circularity/Upcycling

Research explores how manure can be transformed into animal feed

A research project at the University of Borås in Sweden explored how valuable substances can be extracted from organic waste – such as animal manure – and how this loop can be closed by producing animal feed.

Circularity/Upcycling

Food waste-to-feed's potential hindered by logistical hurdles

While the feed industry can utilize byproducts of the human food industry, the supply chains connecting sources of food loss and waste with end users are poorly developed.

Feed Ingredients

Research shows coconut co-product has potential for aquafeeds

In the Philippines, a byproduct of coconut oil production — copra meal — is showing promise for inclusion in farmed fish and shrimp after an additional processing step.

Circularity/Upcycling

NARA supports EPA proposal to increase renewable fuel targets

New Renewable Volume Obligation would expand use of rendered fats in low-carbon fuel production.

Newsfeed

New process uses cow dung to create cellulose materials

For the first time, manufacturing-grade cellulose has been created by using animal waste as a raw material.

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