Maintaining nutritional value
A recent collaboration between Noblesse Proteins BV, Looop and Selko is one example of how we connect businesses and maintain food by-products within the feed chain.
Circular feed
The circular economy offers many potential solutions to meet climate-mitigation targets. Our long-term vision is to use only ingredients that wouldn't otherwise be consumed by humans in our products. As a result of decades of R&D, Nutreco has more responsibly sourced, finite raw materials to choose from and can be increasingly flexible with how it combines them into its products, increasing the sustainability credentials of aquaculture and livestock feed production globally.
Our target
We are actively using mechanisms to stabilise food and feed processing by-products so that they can be incorporated into animal nutrition solutions that highlight circularity.
Our progress
Our current global feed ingredient usage is comprised of, such as ingredients made from by-products from the human food processing chain that would otherwise be wasted if not used in the feed industry. We are also using increasing volumes of ingredients that do not compete with human consumption, such as insect meals, protein from single-cell organisms and cultured algal products. The use of these ingredients represents an efficient use of natural resources and supports the development of a circular economy.
We are continuously exploring opportunities to collaborate with industry players to increase the use of circular ingredients. Our Selko Feed Additives team is running initiatives in different parts of the world to preserve valuable nutrient sources and utilise them within animal feed; its aim is to produce more sustainable animal protein to feed the growing world population.
222,525 metric tonnes of circular raw materials upcycled with our top three customers.