2 firms caught selling fast food wastes as pig feed
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TWO companies dealing in kitchen garbage collecting and treatment have been warned after they were found indulging in illegal practices, the Shanghai Greenery and Public Sanitation Bureau and Shanghai Urban Management and Law Enforcement Bureau said yesterday.
A report by Shanghai Television Station claimed the two licensed companies, Shanghai Sanyi Sanitation Co and Shanghai Zhongqi Environment Technology, which collect wastes from fast food chains in the city illegally sold some of them as feed to pig farms.
According to local regulations, kitchen wastes cannot be used as livestock and poultry feed and violators face a fine of up to 30,000 yuan (US$4,838).
Authorities said both Sanyi and Zhongqi were being investigated for violations.
Late on Sunday night, urban management officials busted an unlicensed garbage sorting station in Songjiang District and seized two trucks carrying wastes to pig farms.
The STV report showed a garbage truck belonging to Sanyi entering the illegal sorting station on Huagong Road around midnight. Sanyi picks up garbage from several KFC outlets in Songjiang District.
A worker said the illegal station had space for 3 tons of wastes per day. He said the kitchen wastes were separated and then transported to pig farms to be used as feed.
“Pigs can grow 1 kilogram per day after eating these wastes,” he said, adding, “They are the best feed for them.”
At noon the next day, another truck, filled with sorted garbage, left the station for a pig farm on Maodao Road in Songjiang. The report showed kitchen wastes piled up at the farm. The farm owner said he had 1,000 pigs — all fed with KFC wastes.
At another company, Shanghai Zhongqi Environment Technology in Pudong New Area, bundles of KFC and McDonalds food packages were seen with dozens of buckets containing already sorted kitchen wastes. The report said a ton of sorted kitchen waste sells for 600 yuan.
A Zhongqi worker said the wastes included bread and chicken wings.
Among its buyers was a pig farm in Taicang, Jiangsu Province. Its owner said he bought them every two days.
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