0 a substance made from crushed dried bones that is used to improve the earth to make plants grow better --
By far the minority are in cold storage; the vast majority have been rendered into meat and bonemeal.
That material went to the renderer's plant to be disposed of as bonemeal or tallow.
The industry operates efficiently and it has a good story to tell on meat and bonemeal and on animal welfare.
He said—it is stated quite clearly in his report —that his forecast assumed that the only cause of the infection was sheep-to-cattle transmission via bonemeal.
Rendering followed by incineration of the resultant meat and bonemeal and tallow costs around £315 per tonne.
It is currently around £45,000 for rendered meat and bonemeal and £220,000 for unrendered carcase material.
They are not stored as meat and bonemeal: they are completely incinerated.
That is a considerable volumetric amount of meat and bonemeal.