What do you do with your excess algae from your refugium?

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I like to try and make as little waste as possible with the amount of animals that I have. Whenever I clean out my refugium which is usually twice a month I end up with about a two gallon bucket full of algae. Before I would give it a rinse and then toss it in my compost bin, or offer it to lfs's that sell macroalgae for store credit. Recently however I found out that I can feed it to my pigs. So now they have a monthly salty treat that actually helps out their gut health and makes their coat a tad softer. How do you dispose of your algae? Do you just toss it or do you find a way to "recycle" it?
Pictures of the pigs mentioned, black one is Mr. Piggy, and the brown one is Captain Boar-bosa (when he was a baby he was a little red head)



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When I had a Chaeto fuge I used to sell it. As much as I could pack into a zip lock in a small flat rate box and sold it for $5 more than the shipping cost. Then people started freaking out over a bristle worm, micro brittle stars or a few asterina so I started tossing socker ball sized piles of it over the hill.
 

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