Review of wastewater treatment chemicals and organic chemistry alternatives
27 February 2015
Focus area: Waste
Program stream: Sustainability
Project number: 2014-1044
The red meat processing industry in Australia comprises of around 191 sites (i.e. individual facilities) spread across around 120 businesses. The industry produces significant volumes of wastewater. An AMPC survey of 23 sites conducted in 2012 revealed that smaller plants, processing up to 1,500 tonnes of hot standard carcase weight (tHSCW) per month used on average 2.82 kL of water per tHSCW processed.