A decade ago , two Brother started recycling food for thought waste product into provender for animals by permit the intellectual nourishment chain work its natural course . In other Holy Scripture — they got into the maggot business . Now their South Africa - base company , AgriProtein , is contrive to expand its fly farms into an international connection , CNN Moneyreports .
Jason and David Drew founded their company in 2008 with the end of cultivating fly larvae ( a.k.a . maggot ) as an eco - friendly protein source . Today , many farmed animals , such as Pisces the Fishes and chicken , are fedfish meal : a type of provender made from dry and ground - up Pisces . Fish are a cheap protein source , but the mellow demand for beast provender has led to them being glean at an unsustainable charge per unit .
AgriProtein ’s result to the provender manufacture ’s sustainability trouble involves tapping into a resourcefulness that can be found wherever there ’s intellectual nourishment waste . To make its products , the ship’s company ’s two rainfly factories in Cape Town and Durban each take in 276 rafts of solid food waste every day . The fly rest 340 million eggs on the waste daily , and those eggs hatch into the maggots used to make the feed .
Theoretically , the process could have wide - reaching effects at every phase of the agriculture industry : Human - render food waste that would otherwise rot in a landfill is used to aliment the protein , which is then used to feed stock , which end up as food for thought for human beings .
The Drew brothers ' " nutrient recycling " construct pull research funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation , and today AgriProtein is valued at more than $ 200 million . The fly farms are limited to South Africa for now , but the company plans to open 100 factory in Asia , the Middle East , Europe and the United States . If their effort are successful , the buddy could inspire other insect sodbuster to embrace the maggot revolution .
[ h / tCNN Money ]
