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Cargill to convert waste to energy on Indonesian Cattle Feed Lot.

SINGAPORE – Cargill today announced the start of construction of an anaerobic digester on PT Santosa Agrido’s Lampung Bekri 23,000-cattle feedlot operation in Lampung / Sumatera, Indonesia. Every year, the digester will capture and convert cattle effluent from the feedlot into 900 tonnes of methane gas that will be used to generate energy for the feedlot. The project will also reduce the greenhouse gas equivalent of 188,000 tones of carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere over 10-years. Co-products from the process and digested solids will be used as organic fertilizer for growing corn for their cattle feed. The technology, which is being managed and funded by Cargill’s Environmental Finance group, will generate carbon credits that can be traded on global climate exchanges.
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