# Animal by-products: Turning a cost into an asset  | Sustainable Food Trust

> The Sustainable Food Trust reports that UK abattoirs once received £45 per hide and £6.50 per lamb skin but now pay to have by-products removed. Rising processing costs and falling hide values are making small abattoirs less viable.

- Date: 2024-11-05 · published 2024-11-05T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region UK · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/27536-animal-by-products-turning-a-cost-into-an-asset-sustainable-food-trust
- Commodities: [Meat & Bone Meal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/MBM.md)

## Why it matters

Rising rendering and disposal costs for by-products in the UK could tighten local supply of rendered protein for feed, though the effect on global prices is limited.

## Sources

- sustainablefoodtrust.org: https://sustainablefoodtrust.org/news-views/animal-by-products-turning-a-cost-into-an-asset/

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