@article{Hamed:289685,
      recid = {289685},
      author = {Hamed, Usama Ben and Thomas, Keith and Naser, Wafa},
      title = {Estimating the transportation Cost of UK Brewery spent  grains using Spent Grain Costing Model (SGCM)},
      address = {2019-04-15},
      number = {2229-2019-1938},
      pages = {17},
      month = {Apr},
      year = {2019},
      abstract = {With the establishment of increasing numbers of small  breweries the disposal of wet brewery spent grains (WBSG)  may pose difficulties in the future particularly for urban  breweries and if transport costs make collection  uneconomic. The aim of this study is to estimate the  transportation cost of spent grains from beverage  production. This aim is investigated using a survey  addressed to UK breweries. In order to achieve the aim of  this study, a model was applied; namely spent grain costing  model (SGCM).The SGCM model revealed that the majority of  vehicles used to transport WBSG from three different sizes  of brewery (small, medium and large) to farms were between  1 to 6 tonne loading capacity and the average distance from  these breweries to farms was 5 miles. Data analyses were  conducted by three vehicles classes and they were  categorized in terms of loading capacity 1 tonne, 3 tonnes  and up to 6 tonnes. This analysis was conducted to  determine the average cost of transporting WBSG from  breweries to farms. The results indicated that the average  transport cost per tonne of WBSG for vehicle with the sizes  of 1 tonne, 3 tonne and 6 tonnes were £ 10.11, £5.20 and  £3.27 respectively.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/289685},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.289685},
}