Circles > Straight Lines
The term “waste” as a noun is relative term. The core of an apple becomes “waste” to some and ends up in a plastic-lined garbage bag that gets hauled away to a landfill. For me, the opportunity to return the apple core back to its intended cycle of breaking down and returning to the earth was wasted. This is the focus of Full Circle Bioconversion: allowing food refuse to complete its intended purpose of breaking down and reentering the growing cycle.
The rate that food refuse is created can be difficult to keep up with in a traditional composting model. Fortunately for us, utilizing the voracious appetite of the black soldier fly larvae whittles the timeframe down significantly. The larvae convert any and all foods in any stage of decay into frass (the term for their excrement). The frass can be utilized as a soil amendment when further composted. And the larvae are processed into fish feed or poultry feed. They are also great live bait.
The desire to see local foods in local restaurants has grown year after year, but there is still a missing step to close the loop. Full Circle Bioconversion completes the cycle: farm to table, table back to farm. Nothing is wasted.