Maggots to the rescue: innovative food waste solution may help wild fish populations too

Project Mila's team of volunteers collect organic waste from households, markets and restaurants in Mombasa and feed it to voracious larvaeA group of young Kenyans are working on an unusual solution to the problems of food waste and fish feed produced unsustainably from wild-caught fish stocks: maggots.The larvae of the black soldier fly are now devouring unwanted food in projects around the world. Their excrement, known as frass, can be used as a fertiliser for land-based crops, and their protein-rich bodies, harvested before they turn into flies, can be fed to livestock. Continue reading...