The waste arrives before daybreak at the plant run by Shandong Qiaobin Agricultural Technology Co, where it is fed through pipes to cockroaches in their cells. A nationwide ban on using food waste as pig feed due to African swine fever outbreaks is also spurring the growth of the cockroach industry. “Cockroaches are a bio-technological pathway for the converting and processing of kitchen waste,” said Liu Yusheng, president of Shandong Insect Industry Association. “It’s like turning trash into resources,” said Shandong Qiaobin chairwoman Li Hongyi. His farm now has 3.4 million cockroaches.

Source: Egypt Independent December 10, 2018 14:37 UTC