How could an unlikely^1 hero
help solve^2 the food waste problem?
id you know that about one-third of
all food is thrown away? In China,
much of the food waste is sent to landfills
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,but these garbage dumps are filling up fast.
Thankfully
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, a little insect4
may be theanswer to this big problem.
(^) Several companies have started feeding
leftovers
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to cockroaches. The food waste
is sent through pipes to little houses where
the cockroaches live. After about six months,
the cockroaches are turned into protein-
rich
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food for pigs and other animals. The
cockroaches can also be used as materials
for medicine
5
and even beauty masks!
To handle
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the huge amount of food
waste, a large number of cockroaches are
needed. One company named Gooddoctor
has around six billion cockroaches! But
what if the cockroaches escape from
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their
homes? To make sure that doesn^ t happen,
Gooddoctor has built a moat
ź
filled with
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the moat, they OOEHHDWHQE\WKH¿VK'R\RX
think cockroaches are a good solution to
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the food waste problem?
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