THE PROPOSED EXPANSION OF THE SUPREME POULTRY CHICKEN PROCESSING PLANT’S SLAUGHTERING THROUGHPUT AND FOR THE RECOVERY, RECYCLING AND TREATMENT OF CHICKEN PROCESSING WASTE TO FEATHER MEAL ON ERF 9907, MAHIKENG

Phakamile Risk Consultants (Pty) Ltd. appointed Enviroworks, an independent Environmental Assessment Practitioner (EAP), on behalf of Supreme Poultry (Pty) Ltd. (The Applicant), to undertake the required Basic Assessment (BA) process for the proposed expansion of the output of slaughtering and processing poultry from 120 000 units per day to 150 000 units per day and associated recovery, recycling and treatment of chicken waste to feather meal at the Supreme Poultry Mahikeng Chicken Processing Plant, North West Province. The Processing Plant is an already established facility (prior to at least 1995 – Appendix I14), with the current slaughtering volumes not exceeding a hundred and twenty thousand (120 000) units per day. The Applicant proposes an expansion of the output to a hundred and fifty thousand (150 000) units per day and associated recovery, recycling and treatment of chicken waste to feather meal. This will lead to an increase in the availability of processed poultry products for the surrounding community and businesses. The Processing Plant is designed in such a manner as to process more units than what it currently processes, therefore no physical construction will occur in order to facilitate this increase of the slaughtering volumes.