Eldorado Posted December 10, 2018 #1 Share Posted December 10, 2018 (edited) In the near pitch-dark, you can hear them before you see them - millions of cockroaches scuttling and fluttering across stacks of wooden boards as they devour food scraps by the tonne in a novel form of urban waste disposal. On the outskirts of Jinan, east China's Shandong province, a billion cockroaches are being fed with 50 tonnes of kitchen waste a day - the equivalent in weight to seven adult elephants. Expanding Chinese cities are generating more food waste than they can accommodate in landfills, and cockroaches could be a way to get rid of hills of food scraps, providing nutritious food for livestock when the bugs eventually die and, some say, cures for stomach illness and beauty treatments. Full article: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6478547/Bug-business-Cockroaches-corralled-millions-China-crunch-waste.html Edited December 10, 2018 by Eldorado 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander CMG Posted December 10, 2018 #2 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Thats nice, what a lovely story... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+susieice Posted December 10, 2018 #3 Share Posted December 10, 2018 They must reproduce like crazy being maintained so well. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commander CMG Posted December 10, 2018 #4 Share Posted December 10, 2018 Reminds me when we hitch hiked a lift on a dutch fishing trawler after a job... We slept in hammocks, they said it was better than bunks and when the lights went out, I found out why... the floor was alive and moving with thousands of cockroaches... You could hear them all night... 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
qxcontinuum Posted December 12, 2018 #5 Share Posted December 12, 2018 Great idea. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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