SAKURA, Japan: With prices for animal feed and fertilizer at record highs, Japan's food-recycling industry is seeing greater demand than ever before for pellets for pigs and poultry made from recycled leftovers.
Japan disposes of about 20 million tons of food waste a year, five times as much as world food aid to the poor in 2007. The leftovers used to be dumped in landfills where they decomposed and produced methane, a greenhouse gas.
But government legislation since 2001 has helped stimulate a recycling industry that turns food scraps into animal feed and fertilizer or ships leftovers to facilities where the methane gas produced by rotting food is harnessed to power industrial plants.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/07/23/business/food.php
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