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Rosentrater, Kurt |
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Submitted to: Symposium Proceedings
Publication Type: Proceedings Publication Acceptance Date: 9/26/2005 Publication Date: 10/23/2005 Citation: Rosentrater, K.A. 2005. Modeling the economics of landfilling organic processing waste streams. Environmentally Conscious Manufacturing V (Optics East 2005), Boston, MA, October 22-24,2005. Interpretive Summary: Technical Abstract: As manufacturing industries become more cognizant of the ecological effects that their firms have on the surrounding environment, their waste streams are increasingly becoming viewed not only as materials in need of disposal, but also as resources that can be reused, recycled, or reprocessed into valuable products. Within the food processing sector are many examples of various liquid, sludge, and solid biological and organic waste streams that require remediation. Alternative disposal methods for food and other bio-organic manufacturing waste streams are increasingly being investigated. Direct shipping, blending, extrusion, pelleting, and drying are commonly used to produce finished human food, animal feed, industrial products, and components ready for further manufacture. Landfilling, the traditional approach to waste remediation, however, should not be dismissed entirely. It does provide a baseline to which all other recycling and reprocessing options should be compared. This paper discusses the implementation of a computer model designed to examine the economics of landfilling bio-organic processing waste streams. Not only are these results applicable to food processing operations, but any industrial or manufacturing firm would benefit from examining the trends discussed here. |
