FOOD IN ENGINEERING
COMPACT KDS
TECHNOLOGY
These wet cakes of byproduct
Tons of sodden, sticky, unhealthy and potentially environmentally hazardous
wastewater byproduct from small-to-medium enterprises are expensively
transported every day in NewZealand to costly processing and disposal facilities.
from food processors,
kitchens, manufacturers,
farms and primary producers
can cost upwards of $160 a
ton to move by specialised
transport from the places where
effluent is produced, to centres where
compacting, drying and disposal can
take place in controlled environments.
HALVES SODDEN WASTE
TRANSPORTATION COSTS;
REDUCES OH&S HAZARDS
“Often this sodden waste has to be
carried away by road, because many
small to medium-scale producers can’t
afford to install expensive processing,
compacting and drying plants at
their own facilities,” says Australasian
wastewater authority Michael Bambridge.
“So, these producers use up money, time
and fuel they often can’t afford hauling
sodden cake to facilities where it can
be treated and disposed of in a way
that doesn’t threaten groundwaters,”
says Mr Bambridge, managing director
of CST Wastewater Solutions, who
has more than 40 years’ experience in
treating wastewater throughout Australia
and New Zealand, including in environmentally
sensitive and World Heritage
listed sites.