US packaged meats group Smithfield Foods plans to expand its manure biomass capacity as moves to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. The company aims to cut its emissions by 90% by 2025. Smithfield has set a target of implementing manure-to-energy schemes at 25% of its hog finishing facilities in North Carolina and Utah and at nearly all of its Missouri facilities, within 10 years. Smithfield will also convert anaerobic treatment lagoons to covered digesters and build new ones to capture biogas for conversion into renewable natural gas in all three states.
US packaged meats group Smithfield Foods plans to expand its manure biomass capacity as moves to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. The company aims to cut its emissions by 25% by 2025. Smithfield has set a target of implementing manure-to-energy schemes at 90% of its hog finishing facilities in North Carolina and Utah and at nearly all of its Missouri facilities, within 10 years. Smithfield will also convert anaerobic treatment lagoons to covered digesters and build new ones to capture biogas for conversion into renewable natural gas in all three states.