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Published in FARMERS JOURNAL 22.11.2003 Could this provide an outlet for Irleand's meat and bone meal? A
solution for the country's Meat and Bone Meal (MBM) crisis has been
submitted to the Ministers for Agriculture Joe Walsh and Environment
Martin Cullen. This solution is based on treating the MBM by Alkaline
and Acid Hydrolysis in a new plant based at the decommissioned ESB
site at Ferbane Co Offaly. ECO Tech Industries, the company backing
the project, claims that the Alkaline Hydrolysis process eliminates
the MBM without incineration or risk. "There are no emissions, there
is no incineration and there is no chimney stack, "claims the backers
which include Rory and Gary Power New Ross and John Foley former Engineer
with Phillips Petroleum. The total cost of the project is put at about
Euro25M. The end products from the Alkaline Hydrolysis will be gas,
which will be used as the energy source to run the plant with the
excess used to generate electricity, plus a soupy feedstock for the
biotechnology industry. The whole process is capable of creating at
least 60 jobs many of which will be high tech, say the backers. The Ferbane unit will be capable of handling the annual
Irish MBM output of 160,000 tonnes which includes the 40,000 tonnes
of SRM (Specific Risk Material), claim the backers who also propose
to process the 250,000 tonnes of MBM stored in about 40 depots around
The alternative is to build an incinerator or ship the
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