In the words of my mentor, "You cannot make compost until you can bake bread". The complexity of a composting process, the value of a balanced recipe and the importance of proper homogenization of raw materials can best be understood when compared to baking a loaf of sourdough bread. ...
Tags: Compost Sourdough Bread Yeast Composting Mortality Compost Compost Equipment Abattoir Waste Condemned Waste Waste Pathogen Bio-Security Microbe Composting Installations Windrow In-Vessel Compost Turning Agitated Drum Active Composting Passive Composting

An increasing number of business owners are becoming aware of the potential applications of tissue digestor systems. Unfortunately most of the information available on tissue digestors is so scientifically orientated that it only serves to alienate the very people that it aims to educate....
Tags: tissue digestor waste abattoir waste carcass disposal pathogens offensive odor management savings blood feathers bones skulls fat hides hooves soft tissue bio-hazardous disease response effluent disposal alternatives bio-gas fertilizer compost

Ever wondered how people manage to reach any kind of meaningful age without suffering a terrible and agonizing death due to an infection caused by some or the other strange and exotic bug?
Tags: Bacillus Cereus rod shaped bacteria Gram positive Fried Rice Syndrome diarrhea Clostridium perfringens

Our local Mpumalanga newspaper – The Lowvelder - today published a front page article about decomposing cow heads that were found on the bank of the Crocodile River. ...
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Is it just my imagination or are there a growing number of increasingly disillusioned business owners that have one thing in common - they all dabbled with small waste disposal processes that make use of proteolytic enzymes to digest animal carcasses and condemned abattoir waste tissue?...
Tags: enzymatic treatment abattoir condemned waste tissue pathogen water practical digest enzyme effluent disposal utility Proteases Proteinases Proteolytic

The much debated issue of slaughterhouse blood disposal is one that is all too familiar at abattoirs and water utilities alike. Bovine blood used to be one of the hottest commodities that an abattoir had to sell. Bovine blood is rich in protein, and was the preferred source of protein in animal feed mixtures until mad cow disease reared is ugly head back in the 90’s. ...
Tags: Bovine blood fertilizer rendering pathogen mad cow disease slaughterhouse abattoir sterile urea Nitrogen farmers

What are prions? The word prion was coined in 1982 by neurologist Dr Stanley Prusiner, and is used to describe a proteinaceous infectious agent that is not inactivated or destroyed by procedures that modify nucleic acids such as deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) or ribonucleicacid (RNA)...
Tags: Prions PrPSc PrPc Creutzfeldt-Jakob TSE BSE transmissible spongiform encephalopathies

The traditional approach to mortality composting does not provide acceptable pathogen reduction capabilities when dealing with Specific Risk Material Composting by its very nature is not a very homogenous process and for this reason com...
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MAAHP™ Tissue Processors

The new 2nd generation MAAHP™ tissue processor range has recently been launched in South Africa!

WRT's 2nd generation MAAHP™ Tissue Processors are highly specialized units - developed specifically for abattoirs and meat processing plants - that facilitate a thermo-chemical process by which all types of animal tissue can be broken down into a stable and completely pathogen free liquid with numerous useful applications.

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