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But she’s no ordinary farmer, and these aren’t ordinary animals.
Chua and her partner, Phua Jun Wei, founded startup Insectta in 2017. They are battling Singapore’s food waste crisis with the help of an unlikely ally: the black soldier fly larva.
“The concept behind Insectta is that nothing goes to waste,” said Chua. “Waste can be reimagined as a resource if we change how we think about our production methods, and how we deal with waste.”
Chua said the company feeds the black soldier fly maggots up to eight tons of food waste per month, including byproducts received from soybean factories and breweries, such as okara and spent grain.
Insectta can then flash dry the maggots into animal feed, and turn the insects’ excrement into agricultural fertilizer.
While there are plenty of companies using insects to manage waste, including Goterra, Better Origin and AgriProtein, Insectta is…
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