Chinese People Found A New Way To Handle Waste Disposal: They Raise Billions Of Cockroaches

Garbage and how to handle waste disposal have been one the most concerned issues in all the countries across the world, including China. As we can see, burning the garbage is clearly worthless in this case, and even it also makes our environment more polluted.

That’s why China wants to look for a better solution with a lot of surprises: use cockroaches.

According to a revelation from Reuters, a waste disposal plant whose owner is Shandong Qiaobin Agricultural Technology is located on the suburb of Jinan (Shandong’s capital). Every morning, the plant will collect the massive amount of the waste to nourish the cockroaches kept in the enclosures through pipes. About a billion of these living creatures can swallow approximately 50 tons of garbage daily discharged from our kitchen.

It turns out that cockroaches, the most terrible rival of girls, still have their own advantages. Shandong Qiaobin Agricultural Technology has had a plan to build 3 other plants with the same function next year. The primary purpose of these plants is to eliminate 1/3 kitchen waste which the 7 million citizens in Jinan are littering each day.

The same thing has happened one time in China. The Chinese people cultured pigs by food scraps before the African swine fever broke out. Their new target is now cockroaches. In addition to handling waste disposal, these living creatures, after their death, have also shown its helpfulness in becoming high-protein sources to feed the livestock, as well as a part of traditional medicinal remedies. Some medical research companies are now collecting the alive cockroaches to service their research.

The chairwoman of Shandong Qiaobin, Li Hongyi confirmed that these creatures could turn trash into resources. There was a man from a village in Sichuan who had the same thinking as Li Hongyi. He is Li Bingcai, 47 years old. This man has spent $146,300 (equivalent to Rs 1 crore) on his cockroach farms. Li possesses 3.4 million cockroaches which can handle the enormous amount of garbage taken to his two farms every day. Besides, drug companies also buy them from his farms to produce medicines while fisheries and local farms are also his partners.

Cockroaches are the business model new to almost all of the people; however, its economic value can be undeniable. Talking about his job, Li Bingcai aims to expand the kind of business to many different villagers and increase his farms to 20 from 2.

Apart from Li Bingcai, Gooddoctor, a company in Sichuan, has raised 6 billion cockroaches to handle waste disposal.