Advocacy, Case Studies, Craftspersons/ Artisanal, Employment/ Livelihood
Golden Feathers
Agrahari, Radhesh
Issue 10,Summer 2023
Issue #10, 2023 ISSN: 2581- 9410
Do You Know! How much waste our food industry generates the cafes, restaurants, the meat shops and so on. From farm to table most of this waste ends up in landfills. But have you ever wondered is there any way or opportunity to diminish this waste and the after environmental hazardous effects of it. The chicken waste garbage is thrown into rivers, causing water pollution & health hazards. Such pollution of water bodies is a man-mad disaster especially in Deserts.
Did You Know…?
1kg of mature Chicken produces 350gm of waste
Informative FACT: 1 kg chicken gets only 650gm meat, and the rest covers 350gm of waste [which consists 50-70g of feather], which is thrown as a waste. 1 kg feather can deplete13.37 carbon footprint.
So let’s talk about the facts. Do you know that 65% people in India and 85% people globally eat chicken as a food [facts stated according to Times of India, in 2010], which means numbers have surely increased by now.
But the Butchery Chicken Waste [BCW], where do you think it ends up…?
Again the facts, UP and Delhi NCR itself produces 300,000,000,000 ton of waste per year, which ends up in our landfills, river, burnt roadside or at city outskirts causing land ...
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