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Should we be letting flies eat our food waste?
In Lithuania and Australia, hungry fly larvae are used to process food waste into useful protein.
In Vilnius, capital of the Baltic state of Lithuania, fly larvae have officially been given the job of processing the 2,700 tonnes of food waste the city's 607,000 residents put out for collection each year, alongside that of the six neighbouring councils. A female fly can lay around 500 eggs in her average 21-day lifespan, so Mr Blazgys and his team are dealing with more than three million larvae a month, who can consume more than 11 tonnes of food waste in the first, hungriest days of their lives. But EU mean fly larvae fed with kitchen waste can't be used in edible insect products for human consumption, as there could be cross contamination from meat and fish scraps.
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