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Wolves can soon be deployed to reduce the amount of food scraps in Sydney households, which enter the regular storage area. Lock Points Clover Moore supports insect farming as an alternative to composting food residues Clover Moore Insect Farming Supports Composting As an alternative for Food Scrap Food Scrap constitutes about one -third to Sydney house Food scrap constitutes about one -third of the Sydney house. Sydney Lord Mayor Clover Moore asked the Council investigate the insect farming attempt to cope with food waste as a cheaper and environmentally "superior" alternative existing composting methods. Moore, using black soldier flies larvae, referring to the success of a local company, Ms. Moore, developing technology has not yet tested by the Council, but showing promising results, he said. "We expect this processing technique to provide superior environmental benefits because it should result in clear positive carbon emissions by producing sustainable animal feed and fertilizer."Said. "In addition, the processing infrastructure required for insect farming is modular, scalable and cost -effective compared to other food organic processing technology, and makes the cost per tone very competitive." It takes about 12 days for maggots to break down food waste. From July 2019 to October 2021, the city carried out a collection of food scrap for 20,000 selected households, compoting using anaerobic digestion and saving more than 738 cubic meters of storage. Ms. Moore suggested that households, whose food residues continue to be collected separately, to take an insect agriculture attempt. "The results of this experiment can be used to inform all the food organic service to all our residents."Said. Australia has goal of halving organic waste regular storage, but it was slower than expected, and forced the federal government to move from end of this year 2030. Only one quarter of the councils in Australia offer a separate collection service and only three councils in Sydney use Fogo boxes for all residents. Food scrap constitutes about one third of a house garbage box in Sydney. Recycled food wastes have been turned into high -grade compost or biogas, but the lack of the final product demand was limited. Olympia Yarger, the founder of Maggot Farmer and Australian insect Protein Association, said insects are the key to creating a circular economy. "Insects are unique to evaluate the supply chain up and down waste. This means that they can fit into the supply chain in many ways. And they evaluate really low -valuable things to something very valuable," he said. The company Goterra works with several councils to convert food waste into protein that can be used in animal feed or fertilizer. "Starting your organics from the rest of your waste streams and putting them in a garbage box that can be collected as collected as collected, and then being brought to one of our facilities," he said. Mrs. Yarger said it was not more expensive than sending it to the

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