How Singapore Fixed Their Food Waste Problem By Maggots
This Southeast Asian country fills landfills quickly. 蛆 The answer can be to reduce food waste
Singapore - It is hard not to miss the giant black fly that swept
through the white insect network, the first insect farm in Singapore.
From the beginning of the end of the world, a group of flies looks like
something, but these insects are not meant to commemorate the fall of
humanity.
As Singapore urbanized, its traditional food cycle began to breakdown. In the 1950s, when the country was comprised mainly of small farming communities, or (Village), the food waste from a kitchen table was thrown to the farm animals. But as a result of rapid development, glittering skyscrapers now hog the majority of the island's 278 square miles. And tough international regulations on the use of food waste following concerns about mad cow disease in the 1990s means that livestock are no longer allowed to consume human food scraps.
When he and Ho first told regulators about their plans for an insect farm in the city, they were met with concern. But regulators' fears were allayed after learning that black soldier flies are a native species and wouldn't pose any dangers to the public. "There is no fear of the flies passing communicable diseases as the adult flies don't bite or feed,"
However, according to a group of farmers and urban scientists in this Southeast Asian country, there may be a squeak solution under everyone's nose. Living in the jungles of Singapore is the flight of black soldiers - the unit of natural waste disposal in nature. When they breed their larvae, they will almost eat almost all remaining food scraps. These trendy tropical insects are now two businessmen Daren is Wong Jiaquan deliberately in the city, they created insects - insects, a farm town in Queensland. The goal of a graduate of natural resource management is to leverage the former to adopt sustainable agricultural practices, reduce urban waste, and embrace natural food-friendly courses, an advantage of the island.
When Singapore became urban, the traditional food cycle began to collapse. In the 1950s, when the country consisted mainly of small farming communities or of Kampung villages, food was thrown from the kitchen table to farm animals. But due to rapid development, the bright skyscrapers now occupy most of the island's 278 square miles. After concern about mad cow disease in the 1990s, strict international regulations on the use of food waste would allow livestock not to consume the debris of human food.
Eng said that when he and the first organizers told them they had an insect breeding plan in the city, they were worried. However, fear of the regulatory body eased after learning that the Black Soldier's flies were of local species and posed no danger to the public. "Since adult fruit flies do not bite or feed, do not worry that flies can spread infectious diseases," Ng said.
Both Ng and Ho began their small business in March 2017 on the basis of Citizen Farm, a former employer and an urban farmer in Singapore. In the net shell, cockroaches break down food waste into soil-like organic material called frass - fecal larvae - to become fertilizer. The larvae were then used as high-protein feed for Citizen Farm chicken. The goal is to ensure that food waste is recycled, not disposed of. The processed waste comes from Singapore's soya shops, small local breweries and community members who support the project. "We have two waste channels - all waste from soy shops and breweries, we convert them to compost, we use them in citizen farms, and post-consumption waste is food waste,"
While model farmers have to wait months or years for their animals to mature, the insect team needs only a few weeks. Before the death of five to eight days, the flies of the soldiers spawn about 600 eggs each. These eggs take four days to hatch in larvae that eat five times the weight each day. After a few days of feeding, the larvae can be transformed into a nutritious feed for fish, chicken and even pets. In insects, a small number of larvae are allowed to turn into cockroaches, then turn into flies after one week, and the cycle begins again. The shareholders support the team and have not yet started selling its feed or fertilizer products, but are expected to receive a feed license soon and will then attempt to convert fertilizer to its reputation.
Black flight farms based on similar models can now be found in China, Indonesia, and South Africa. However, the difference in this farm in Singapore is that it is in a city rather than a rural environment. "We have to design our farm in a very different way," said Ng. Due to space constraints, the teams must build vertically to create pallets for their larvae. Bad odors are acceptable and everything must be covered to avoid attracting lesions.
From Crystallize Huang from Red-Dot Brew-house in Singapore, Brewster sent her pills to Insects and she was surprised by the cleanliness environment in the company. "I'm very interested in this smell - no one," she said. "I know exactly how much grain taste after staying in the tropics after a day." Co-founder Citizen Farm Bjorn Lo is also a fan of the work. "This compost is one of the cleanest and most bio-active fertilizers we've ever seen," he said. "It seems that this work is good for the farm and our factory, so we are very happy."
In another part of the city, a team from the Department of Biological Sciences at the National University of Singapore are exploring how to change the behavior of black soldiers to maximize disposal potential. The aim of this project is to make the larvae from the active jams, so half of the larvae can consume the same amount of food waste in half the area.
"If you look at chickens, they will produce about 300 eggs a year under," said project leader and biologist Rudolph Mayer. "But if you look at the jungle chickens, the wild species of raising chickens, they are only a year we can produce 15 to 20 eggs, so we are now looking for invading soldiers."
The Artemas Prosperity Foundation, a Singaporean government charity, is to support the National University of Singapore. The team has two years of funding to improve larval eating habits. Their plan was to use flies eventually to restore as much food waste as possible from the campus to more than 39,000 students, thereby reducing the cost of transporting them to landfills.
Although Meyer does not think that the flies of black agricultural soldiers will solve all the waste problems in the city, he believes that certain problems can certainly be solved. "This recycling method is particularly suitable for cities because it contains hot food waste, large volume and predictable food waste, whether it is food production facilities, large hotels or restaurants," Meyer said. "If a different level of waste, recycling food waste with a black soldier flies will be more difficult, for example, a number of small restaurants are not required, the food waste transferred to the flight facility will be too expensive."
The idea of using flies to recycle waste with the creation of natural fertilizers and animal feed is also gaining increasing interest in cities outside of Singapore.
A team in London named Motorcycle has built an indoor breeding environment for the black soldiers' lions, hoping to recycle the city 365 days a year. In Melbourne, Australia, a biotechnology company called Karma3 plans to expand the research farm for black soldiers in the out of town. Agrippina in South Africa has been a major success in the first flight farm near Cape Town International Airport, where another farm will be opened in the Johannesburg area. Since the idea of hunting with flies around the world, Insect is closer to fulfilling its mission - with the words Ng, "with the biological minimum creating a brighter future."
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