Industrial Symbiosis for Sustainable Management of Meat Waste: The Case of Śmiłowo Eco-Industrial Park, Poland.

This study presents the developing process of the Śmiłowo Eco-Park, located in the Noteć valley region (Poland), is a part of the biggest Polish agri-food consortium, from its initial small waste management company to its final structure as an eco-industrial park using industrial symbiosis methods. The industrial symbiosis applied in the Eco-park promotes a business model which covers the whole life cycle of the products starting from the plant growing by animal feed preparation, livestock breeding, meat preparations, meat-bone meal production from animal waste, and the use of pig slurry as a fertilizer. The Eco-park model is presented in the form of a system of connected stream flows of materials and energy covering the full lifecycle of products, from cereal cultivation, through the production of industrial feed, and poultry and pig breeding for the production of meat products.

Quantification of material recovery from meat waste incineration - An approach to an updated food waste hierarchy.

The meat industry generates a significant amount of hazardous waste, containing phosphorus, calcium, and other elements which could be the basis for other products. This work presents the results of research on the thermal utilisation of bone meat waste and the use of the ash thus obtained as a substitute for phosphorus raw materials. Material Flow Analysis was used to quantify and assess the option with the highest material productivity.

Data on the thermal method of odour elimination implemented in the Polish agro-food consortium.

The data presented in this article are related to the research paper entitled "The circular economy model used in the Polish agro-food consortium: a case study" published in the Journal of Cleaner Production 284 (2021) 124751. The utilisation of meat waste for the production of meat-bone meal is the Farmutil's consortium main activity. The Oxidor system was developed for the combustion of all the odour emitted from meat-bone meal production.

Optimisation of the co-combustion of meat-bone meal and sewage sludge in terms of the quality produced ashes used as substitute of phosphorites.

To obtain a high-quality phosphorus raw material comparable in quality to the best phosphorites used in the fertiliser industry, an analysis was carried out to determine the optimal mass proportions of a meat-bone meal and sewage sludge mixture to be used in a co-combustion process. The ashes obtained contained hydroxyapatite that could be considered a high-quality substitute for phosphorites, with an average PO content of 33.5%.