From Scarcity to Solutions 2025

Sunner Group’s circularity in poultry production programmeCase study 6 Sunner Group is the largest chicken supplier to McDonald’s China. Through its waste-to-energy circular business model, it achieved annual emissions reductions of 128,500 tonnes. Technology and business model innovations Outcomes –Generated GHG emissions reduction equivalent to 128,500 tonnes annually through circular practices. –Produced 31,933 tonnes of organic fertilizer from manure and converted 267,000 tonnes of chicken residues into protein ingredients for the animal feed industry annually. Lessons learned –Waste-to-energy models reduce emissions. –However, they depend on centralized infrastructure and long-term public-private partnerships.Source: Sunner Group interviews and materials review. –Converts breeding waste into renewable products: the waste is turned into fertilizers, feed and fuel for electricity generation. –Chicken manure is converted into biomass fuel at the company’s biomass power plant. The plant is the largest biomass power plant in Asia that runs on chicken manure and generates 240 million kWh annually.Food and water circularity From Scarcity to Solutions: Food-Water Innovation in Asia and the Middle East 24