WASTE MANAGEMENT IN BROILER INDUSTRY, BULGARIA

Under the current global policies for sustainable development, agriculture and animal husbandry are among the sectors which need to shift their production concepts towards more efficient, eco-friendly and smart technologies. Poultry farming is currently the most rapidly growing agricultural industry. This sector aims at stable economic growth combined with environmental safety which is an opportunity to introduce a transition of the business from the traditional linear model to circular economy. The present study focuses on the aspects of poultry waste management which sees waste as a resource for utilization. We discuss the main principles of circular economy in the view of a real-life example from one of the intensive poultry-breeding industries in Bulgaria which had implemented practices for waste-to-energy solutions.