The intensification of biomass utilization as a fuel and raw material is increasingly leading to conflicts about the use of biomass, particularly in relation to safeguarding an adequate food supply. Therefore it is important to primarily use those biomass resources which are not suitable for direct food supply as efficiently as possible. Against this background the sector-specific amount and the current recycling of residues from the food, semi-luxury food and biotech industry were evaluated. There is a fundamentally great utilization potential for these biogenic residues for energy and bioproduct-related purposes but it also has to be taken into account that the main proportion of this biogenic residue fraction is currently used in the feedstuff sector.