SIBU, Aug 10 (Bernama) -- Selangor- based company, Biotech Alliance International (BAI) is offering palm oil companies its system to deal with mill wastes.

Its managing director, Dr Larry Koh, said this waste management system would convert empty fruit bunches (EFBs) and palm oil mill efffluents (POMEs) into high-quality organic fertiliser.

"The fertiliser can be used for the plantation's internal consumption or for sale," he said at a briefing for a group of planters here.

Koh said BAI used a cocktail of locally-cultured inoculums designed by its own consultant microbiologist to decompose the EFBs and POMEs.

"We can compost all types of palm wastes as long as they are biodegradable, thus solving the waste disposal problems currently faced by the industry," he said.

Koh said the usual method of using treatment ponds for POMEs would produce the harmful methane gas which would contribute to global warming.

"Our system will remove this gas. It is now used by Felda plantations," he said.

He said the system had received the quality assurance award from SAI Global Certification Services (Australia) to ensure the composting processes and composted products met the highest standards.

-- BERNAMA