Wednesday 13 September 2017

China to begin paying farmers to convert livestock waste to fuel and fertilisers

In a move to reduce agricultural pollution, the government of China will begin paying farmers to convert the waste from intensive livestock farming into fuel and fertilisers. The farmers will be given an incentive to create animal waste processing facilities in order to prevent the release of dangerous pollutants into rivers and lakes. The plan is to treat the manure to make fertiliser and to install biogas plants to capture methane for electricity or heat generation.


For more information read the Full Article by James Ayre,  Clean Technica, August 31 2017.

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