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Hong Kong biotech firm wins government contract to use fly maggots to eat up city’s huge organic waste problem

A biotechnology company has suggested using fly maggots to take a bite out of Hong Kong’s massive food waste problem, with plans already going ahead for a facility to use larvae to chew through chicken waste.

Organic Tech, a subsidiary of Baguio Green Group, one of the city’s main waste management companies, will set up a plant in Tuen Mun’s EcoPark in June, to convert 10 tonnes of chicken  – one-third of the city’s output – into about five tonnes of fertiliser and fish feed by September using black soldier fly larvae.

https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3161957/hong-kong-biotech-firm-wins-government-contract

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biotechnology, organic waste, sustainability, waste management

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