Firstly, they will be gassed. Mobile gas chambers were delivered to the Holton farm over the weekend. All 159,000 will be placed into crates, "forklifted" into the chambers and gassed to death.
It is the quickest, most bio-secure and humane method of killing them, according to the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). The process is expected to take several days.
The carcasses will then be transported in sealed, leak-proof lorries to a rendering plant in Staffordshire. Each lorry has metal covers which are locked before leaving the processing centre. The vehicles are also cleansed and disinfected once outside the site.
Rendering involves the crushing and grinding of carcasses into a sludge, followed by heat treatment in a sealed vessel to reduce the moisture content and kill micro-organisms. Around 60% of the carcass weight is moisture and this is lost as steam.
Steam and gaseous emissions are collected, condensed and either bio-filtered - a technique using living material to filter or chemically process pollutants - or incinerated in a boiler. The process produces few direct emissions and any residue left over is disposed of in a landfill site.
A range of options are available for the disposal of carcases but rendering is the preferred method in this case as it is the safest way to ensure the virus is completely destroyed, says Defra.
Also, the chosen rendering plant is much larger than normal incineration plants and therefore has the capacity to deal with large the number in this case.
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It is the quickest, most bio-secure and humane method of killing them, according to the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra). The process is expected to take several days.
The carcasses will then be transported in sealed, leak-proof lorries to a rendering plant in Staffordshire. Each lorry has metal covers which are locked before leaving the processing centre. The vehicles are also cleansed and disinfected once outside the site.
Rendering involves the crushing and grinding of carcasses into a sludge, followed by heat treatment in a sealed vessel to reduce the moisture content and kill micro-organisms. Around 60% of the carcass weight is moisture and this is lost as steam.
Steam and gaseous emissions are collected, condensed and either bio-filtered - a technique using living material to filter or chemically process pollutants - or incinerated in a boiler. The process produces few direct emissions and any residue left over is disposed of in a landfill site.
A range of options are available for the disposal of carcases but rendering is the preferred method in this case as it is the safest way to ensure the virus is completely destroyed, says Defra.
Also, the chosen rendering plant is much larger than normal incineration plants and therefore has the capacity to deal with large the number in this case.
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