JINAN, CHINA — As Chinese cities expand and create more food waste, cockroaches could be used as an effective tool in waste disposal.<br /><br />Jinan, a city in northern China has been feeding a billion cockroaches with 50 tonnes of kitchen waste a day, reports Reuters.<br /><br />The food scraps arrive at the Shandong Qiaobin Agricultural Technology Company and is run through pipes and fed to cockroaches in their cells.<br /><br />When the cockroaches eventually die, the company says they can be used to feed livestock such as pigs as cockroaches are a good source of protein.<br /><br />The company plans to set up three more waste disposal plants, aiming to process a third of the city's food waste.
