Federal Government set to convert abattoir waste to wealth
The Federal Government says it is set to convert all the waste from slaughtered animals in the abattoir to wealth in the country.
The Registrar, of the Environmental Health Council of Nigeria (EHCN), Dr. Yakubu Baba, made the commitment in an interview with journalists on Tuesday in Abuja.
Baba said that the efforts would not only improve the cleanliness and healthier environment in the abattoir markets but would as well provide manure to farmers in the country.
According to him, the council is coming up with public health solution, whereby all the waste in the abattoir will be converted into wealth by providing manure to our farmers.
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“The council wants to ensure that wastes that come out of any slaughtered animal will no longer be wasteful, rather such wastes will be converted into manure and it will be sold to our farmers.
“The solid that will come out from the biogas digester is manure that can be packaged and sold to farmers.
“The liquid content also will be bottled as a liquid fertiliser and sold to the farmers as well.
“The environmental health officials are working towards going into the market and introducing the system to the people. So, it’s a win-win situation,” he said.
Baba explained that biogas is an environmentally-friendly, renewable energy source, adding that it’s produced as organic matter, such as food or animal waste.
He said that the liquid and the solid wastes from the slaughtered animals were being converted into a biogas digester, which would eventually, digest the wastes into a byproduct.
According to him, the by-product is something that is produced during the manufacture or processing of another product.
He said that biogas is part of the modern system of building the abattoir markets to a global standard, by ensuring that the markets are environmentally friendly.
He said that butchers operating in the abattoir are using tires to smoke the slaughtered animals, thereby causing an increase in air pollution and climate change in the areas.
He said that the introduction of a biogas system would help to mitigate the effect of climate change and provide the solution to gas flaring at the abattoirs.
“The council has noticed that there is a lot of air pollution because the butchers are using tires to smoke the slaughtered animals.
