Animals China is buried under waste. The ever-growing population produces more waste than the waste dumps processing. To assist in the processing of kitchen waste are now becoming more common cockroaches used.

In Jinan, a city in the eastern province of Shandong, is a facility of the Shandong Qiaobin Agricultural Technology Co. There devour a billion cockroaches every day about 50 tonnes of waste. They get the food administered through pipes to their cells. Shandong Qiaobin wants next year three more similar plantations startup to a total of a third of the kitchen waste from Jinan, a city of seven million people, to be able to process.

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“Cockroaches are a biotechnological approach for the transformation and processing of kitchen waste,” says Liu Yusheng, director of the Shandong Insect Industry Association. the

And even the dead cockroaches to be ‘recycled’: they are transformed into a protein-rich food source for pigs and other livestock. Also other factories in China, growing cockroaches to feed.