Industrial insect rearing as a decentralized, circular economy food waste recovery strategy
SmartBreed has developed a decentralised, circular economy insect breeding system which up-cycles food waste at food production companies. It turns insect larvae into fertiliser, protein-rich insect meal for animal feed and insect oil (biodiesel) in an industrial symbiosis. The FHNW School of Life Sciences is running two analyses as part of the life cycle assessment. The aim is to see whether giving food by-products to insects directly where the by-products originate, and extracting raw materials from them, is better ecologically than conventional methods such as using them in a biogas plant or as animal feed.
Project details
- Type
- Research project
- Research areas
- Sustainable resource management
- University
- FHNW School of Life Sciences / Institute for Ecopreneurship
- Partner
- SmartBreed
- Funding
- Innosuisse 113.106 IP-EE
- Volume
- 2023-2025
Contact
Dipl. Ing. FH Dirk Hengevoss
Research Associate in sustainable resource management
- Phone
- +41 61 228 55 98
- dirk.hengevoss@fhnw.ch
Prof. Dr. Christoph Hugi
Team Leader and lecturer in sustainability and development
- Phone
- +41 61 228 55 84
- christoph.hugi@fhnw.ch
