Renewal Processing, Inc. is a family business that converts recycled food by-products into feed ingredients, with its origins in Pennsylvania agricultural work. John Sensenig began experimenting with bakery-waste processing in 1990, and by the end of 1991 was producing a dry bakery by-product for cattle feed; the business was founded as Sensenig Milling Services, Inc. in 1994 and later renamed Renewal Processing. The company presents its work as a way to keep food by-products out of landfills while supplying an alternative to grain for animal feed.
Holmes By ProductsHolmes By Products is a family-owned rendering plant in Millersburg, Ohio, recycling material from food-processing plants, farms, restaurants, and butcher shops across Northeast and East-Central Ohio. The facility receives more than two million pounds of food waste each week and processes it into useful products, including high-protein feed supplements.MILLERSBURG, OH
MOPACMOPAC is a Souderton, Pennsylvania company that collects and recycles used cooking oil and renders animal by-products into resources for other industries. Its roots trace to a family-operated meatpacking business founded in Souderton in 1877, and it says it has operated a regional rendering facility as part of its long history of repurposing waste. Now under the JBS umbrella, MOPAC serves food-service businesses across the Mid-Atlantic and reports recycling more than 50 million gallons of water annually.SOUDERTON, PA
Darling IngredientsDarling Ingredients collects and processes materials from the animal agriculture and food industries, converting resources that might otherwise be discarded into ingredients and renewable energy. Its operations span more than 260 facilities worldwide, where it transforms animal by-products and food residuals into products for food, feed, agriculture, and low-emission fuel markets.MIFFLINTOWN, PA
G.A. Wintzer & Son CoG.A. Wintzer & Son Co. is a family-owned and operated rendering and recycling business whose operations date to 1848. Based in Wapakoneta, Ohio, it processes animal by-products and used cooking oil into ingredients for animal feed and other usable products. The company has continued under family ownership for more than 170 years.WAPAKONETA, OH