Sweden - Animal bedding

Process:

Grass briquetting

Type of grass:

Reed Canary Grass

Products:

Animal bedding, biogas

In the Swedish demo, Reed Canary Grass (RCG) is shredded and pressed into briquettes – an innovative material for animal bedding which afterwards can easily be used as fertiliser, as well as for biogas or heat production.

RCG is a much more suitable source for animal bedding as the materials used so far – sawdust and wood shavings – hold more potential for the use in biorefinery processes or material development. Furthermore, RCG bedding with manure will result in higher efficiency of the biogas process and contribute to increase circularity.