Should we let our food wastage eat?

Most people are willing to fly away from food, and magots in your compartment have been thought that someone’s stomach is enough to bend.

But a handful of city councils have embraced Magots – more formally known as fly larvae – and their taste to rot food.

In Villanius, the capital of the Baltic State of Lithuania, the fly larva is officially given the processing of 2,700 tonnes of food waste, 607,000 inhabitants of the city are excluded for collection every year, as well as six neighboring councils.

Energesman, Waste Management Company, which began to relieve Wilneyus earlier this year from its food waste, in fact the city does not charge the city for this service.

It is saving the city up to € 2m (£ 1.7m; $ 2.3m) per year, based on the target of processing 12,000 tonnes in 2026, the company’s Chief Executive Officer, Aljirda Blazis, is called Aljirda Blazis.

Energesman has rolled new orange food waste bags for the residents, as well as an impressive marketing campaign to encourage more disintegration to separate its food waste, because the collected 2,700 tonnes collected is a fraction of 40,000 tonnes of domestic waste of 2,700 tonnes of domestic waste.

It has become mandatory for the councils to collect food waste last year, so the city needs to find ways to deal with it.

Meanwhile, Energeman’s plan is to convert the flying larvae into a new income stream.

According to CEO Alzardus Blazagis, it places about six million flies in a particular area within its Villanius plant, which has sexual intercourse every six hours every six hours.

A female fly can lay around 500 eggs in her average 21-day lifetime, so Sri Blazagis and her team are working with more than three million larvae in a month, which can consume more than 11 tonnes of food waste in the first, uproar days, the first of their lives.

This is the huge hunger of these small beings that make them such excellent candidates for food waste processing. This study shows One of them demolished 16 inches of pizza in just two hours.

The trick is to reduce them before turning into mature flies. In this way protein rich fly larvae can be converted into protein products for use in animal feed or industrial use, for example as a component in paint, glue, lamp colors and furniture covers.

In addition, their manure, known as a friend, can be used as fertilizer.

Energesman has already installed supply tests with partners in paint, glue and furniture industries, but Mr. Blazagis accepts that it is proving to be more complex than estimates.

The sample paint produced using Energesman-Reared fly larvae did not come out significantly in the correct color, but the lamp shades saw that it was promising.

They also have university participation to supply fly larvae for research purposes and to feed bacteria. And of course, larvae are demanding to be used as fodder from local fishing industry.

But EU Health and safety regulations Pisces fly larvae fed with kitchen waste cannot be used in food insect products for human consumption, as meat and fish scraps may cause cross contamination.

“We came with some crazy ideas, then we started searching for other people who can also come with some crazy ideas what we can do,” Sri Blazis says.

“As it is still very new, some people still want to see if we are going to fail, so they do not want to brave about it yet. But I think we are going to do something good.”

While fly larvae are being used in the worldwide food waste management, and are being cut as a protein component, it is largely on a commercial basis, for example, owner of a hotel or apartment building and a private contract between a fly larvae rear.

In Kenya, the project is a social enterprise using fly larvae to deal with the growing food waste problem of Mombasa, while also supplies facials as fertilizer to local farmers.

Nevertheless, there are a handful of city councils who have adopted this method of processing food waste.

In Australia, Gotra has used fly larvae to help Sydney help through her food waste, as A limited test part Which started this year.

For the last three years, Goterra has also been working with three townships who are part of the neighbor Queanbeyan-Palerang Regional CouncilRecruitment of wastage of about 10 tons of food.

Will we see that UK Councils start shipping in millions of flies, so their larvae may chew 6.4 million tonnes Domestic food garbage produced here annually, only a few times.

This is the optimistic approach of Larry Coach. He is the CEO and co-founder of the insect waste management company flybox, who says he creates more insect waste processing sites than any other company in the UK, which then works with large-scale private food manufacturers and supermarkets.

Flybox is also a founding member of the insect Bioconavars Association, an industry body representing companies in space.

UK Council is interested, Mr. Coach believes, especially because weekly domestic food waste collections will become mandatory in England from March 2026.

About 148 out of 317 local officials of England still do not offer this. Local authority reference advisory committee,

But the rules set by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DFRA) are currently preventing councils from using fly larvae to process food waste.

If the regulation can suit science, Mr. Coach argues that “the UK can see its first council-oriented insect plant within two years”.

“Unfortunately, it is always safe to say to the government or not … Everyone who we have spoken in the UK Council is very excited about the insect protein and will work with the pest fields compared to alternative technologies.”

Deefra confirmed the BBC that the animals prevent the insects of the rules of the product from using to process organic waste currents.

It says that currently there is no plan to review these rules. The spokesperson said, “Our waste management rules play an important role in protecting the UK’s bio -safety and reducing the risk of the disease.”

The current option is to send food waste in landfill anaerobic digestion (Ad), a breakdown process that makes biogas.

However, Mr. Coach says that the current advertising plant is not sufficient to deal with the anticipated flow of domestic food waste.

“Globally, more than 1.3 billion tonnes of food is wasted every year. We believe that up to 40% can be upset by using pest waste management. And not only does it avoid settlement costs and methane emissions, but it also produces valuable protein and organic fertilizers,” Shiktach is called.