Gosh! What a pile of sh...

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Fly Larvae Used to Remove Organic Waste On an Industrial Scale

ScienceDaily (June 16, 2011) — A group of researchers from the University of Alicante (Spain) present the results of a pilot project where fly larvae are used to reduce animal feces and manure in a sustainable manner.

The research group Bionomics, Systematics and Applied Research in insects, coordinated by Professor Santos Rojo, conducts the research and development work of this project. With the company Flysoil SL, they have managed to produce at industrial scale the Hermetia illucens fly. It is a species of tropical origin but naturalized in the Mediterranean region since the 1960's and their larvae have a natural ability to feed on organic matter from different sources, including waste...

Excellent use of natural processes to solve a problem!

[xSilverPhinx]

People should really model some processes on natural ecosystems more...there's no such thing as garbage in those.

[Tank]

People should really model some processes on natural ecosystems more...there's no such thing as garbage in those.

Quite right. I wish governments would get around to legislating on food packaging and then let the engineers/designers get on with solving the problems.

[Will]

This is wonderful. Nature existed for billions of years before humans came along, and through processes of random mutation and natural selection over long periods of time came to brilliant solutions to problems of imbalance.