Aprovechamiento de los residuos orgánicos de las cafeterías en alimento para animales

Abstract

Because the solid waste (RS) produced by the food industry currently has an inadequate management, given that a large percentage of these end up in landfills; this causing an environmental impact, it is necessary to propose alternatives such as using these RS as a raw material for the production of animal feed. The RS are a resource that can be valuable if you know how to manage, currently only a minimum part of what could be recovered is recycled, and this point towards the search for proper management and a circular economy. Currently the metropolitan area of Bucaramanga has a problem that is becoming increasingly emerging, the closure of the El Carrasco landfill, where currently all the waste produced in the university takes place, hence the need to assess the nutritional viability of waste produced in the cafeterias of the University, analyzing parameters such as water content, ash, protein level, fiber, among others. This project focused on the opportunity to give added value to organic solid waste for its nutritional qualities, making known its transformation for the production of a food product.