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Abstract

The environmental and health risks associated with improper handling of waste bones will be greatly reduced if bone wastes generated from the abattoirs are converted to useful products. Waste cattle bones have been successfully used in the production of glue. The quality of the produced glue was ascertained by testing for quality indicators such as moisture content, pH, density, ash content and viscosity. The values of these quality indicators were greatly improved on investigation of the effects of water quantity and ratio of glue volume to polyvinyl volume used. The values of these quality indicators for the final glue produced with the new raw materials mix compared favorably with values of standard glue with maximum deviation of 0.20 for the ash content.