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Slop, a by-product of alcohol distillery, arises at processing the starch raw materials (potatoes, cereal grains) into spirit. Until now the greater part of slops produced in Poland was utilized as animal feed. However, significant changes took place in Polish agriculture within last years: the number of animal farms considerably decreased, thus the demand for distillery slops for feeding purposes was reduced. The other way of utilizing the slops in agriculture is their application as the fertilizers. Nowadays the other possibilities of the slop utilization apart from the agriculture are being sought. This paper reviewed some new conceptions of destillery slop utilization for non-agricultural purposes.