SmartBreed

    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.

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    Project duration:
    2023-2025
    Funding agency:

    Innosuisse Funding application no. 113.106 IP-EE

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    Institute for Ecopreneurship

    FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
    School of Life Sciences
    Institute for Ecopreneurship

    Hofackerstrasse 30

    CH - 4132 Muttenz