Elazığ Municipality produces food for stray animals

Elazığ Municipality, which garners the appreciation of the citizens with its works for stray animals, realizes another project and produces food for the animals living in the Temporary Animal Care and Rehabilitation Center by using the leftover food and stale bread collected for the animals living in the Temporary Animal Care and Rehabilitation Center in the presence of food engineers.

Elazığ Municipality Veterinary Affairs Directorate continues to work to prevent waste and to produce food for our dear friends living in the Temporary Animal Care and Rehabilitation Center. In this context, the teams of Elazığ Municipality established a food production facility in the Temporary Animal Care Home Rehabilitation Center for stray animals living on the streets. Leftover food collected from public institutions and organizations, hotels, tradesmen and stale bread collected from stale bread bins in the neighborhoods are collected by the teams in the facility.

Saving 3 million liras a year

In the food production facility, food that passes through various machines using the recycling technique in the presence of food engineers is then transformed into food. In the food production unit for stray animals, 400 kilograms of food is produced in 8 hours. Thus, 3 million liras are saved annually.

Fetih Arslantaş, Elazığ Municipality Veterinary Affairs Director Fetih Arslantaş said, "As Elazığ Municipality Veterinary Affairs Directorate, we transform the leftover food and stale bread we collect into food in our food production facility. Our teams collect food from public institutions and organizations, hotels, tradesmen and stale bread from stale bread boxes in the neighborhoods. We first crush the food we collect in the bone crushing machine. Then we bake the leftover food and bones in a 95-degree oven for 8 hours and process them in a pellet machine. Finally, we dry the food in the drying oven and distribute it to street animals. We produce approximately 400 kilograms of food per day. Thus, we save 3 million liras a year. We ask our citizens to throw their stale bread into the box. Those breads are both transformed into food here and given to our friends and waste is prevented. Our canine friends loved the food we produced. We would like to thank our Mayor of Elazığ, Şahin Şerifoğulları, who has never withheld his support in this project."