Chinese city uses cockroaches to process food waste
- 5 years ago
JINAN, CHINA — As Chinese cities expand and create more food waste, cockroaches could be used as an effective tool in waste disposal.
Jinan, a city in northern China has been feeding a billion cockroaches with 50 tonnes of kitchen waste a day, reports Reuters.
The food scraps arrive at the Shandong Qiaobin Agricultural Technology Company and is run through pipes and fed to cockroaches in their cells.
When the cockroaches eventually die, the company says they can be used to feed livestock such as pigs as cockroaches are a good source of protein.
The company plans to set up three more waste disposal plants, aiming to process a third of the city's food waste.
Jinan, a city in northern China has been feeding a billion cockroaches with 50 tonnes of kitchen waste a day, reports Reuters.
The food scraps arrive at the Shandong Qiaobin Agricultural Technology Company and is run through pipes and fed to cockroaches in their cells.
When the cockroaches eventually die, the company says they can be used to feed livestock such as pigs as cockroaches are a good source of protein.
The company plans to set up three more waste disposal plants, aiming to process a third of the city's food waste.