At the close pitch dark, you can hear them before you visit them millions of cockroaches scuttling and fluttering across piles of wooden planks since they devour food scraps by the slew in a publication type of urban waste disposal.
The air is humid and warm - just as cockroaches like it - to make sure that the colonies maintain their health and voracious appetites.
Expanding Chinese cities are generating more food waste than they are able to accommodate in landfills, and cockroaches might be ways to get rid of hills of food scraps, providing healthful food for livestock once the bugs die and, some say, cures for gut illness and beauty treatments.
On the outskirts of Jinan, capital of eastern Shandong province, a billion cockroaches are being fed with 50 tons of kitchen waste a day - the same in weight to seven adult elephants.
The waste occurs until daybreak at the plant run by Shandong Qiaobin Agricultural Technology Co, where it is fed through pipes to cockroaches within their own cells.
Shandong Qiaobin intends to set up three more such plants next year, intending to process that a third of the kitchen waste produced by Jinan, home for about seven thousand people.
A nationwide ban on using food-waste as pig feed due to African swine fever outbreaks can be spurring the development of the cockroach industry.
Cockroaches are also a good source of nourishment for pigs and other livestock.
At a remote village in Sichuan,'' Li Bingcai, 4-7, has similar thoughts.
Li, once a mobile phone vendor, has invested a thousand yuan ($146,300) in cockroaches, which he sells to cows and fisheries as to medication companies as medicinal ingredients.
His farm currently has 3.4 million cockroaches.
"People think that it's strange I do this type of business," Li said. "It's great financial value, and also my goal is to lead other villagers to wealth if they follow my guide."
His village has two farms. Li's objective is to produce 20.
Elsewhere in Sichuan, a company named Good doctor is rearing six-billion cockroaches.
"The basis of cockroach is very good for curing bronchial and oral ulcers, skin fixes and even stomach cancer," said Wen Jian guo, manager of Good doctor's cockroach center.
Researchers are also looking at using cockroach extract in beauty masks, and even hair loss treatments.
At Good doctor, when cockroaches get to the end of their lifespan of roughly half an hour, they are crushed by steam, washed and dried, before being sent to an enormous nutrient extraction tank.
Asked about the chance of the cockroaches escaping, Wen stated that would be worth a tragedy movie but that he has had precautions China Use One Billion Cockroach to Get Rid of Kitchen Scraps
The air is humid and warm - just as cockroaches like it - to make sure that the colonies maintain their health and voracious appetites.
Expanding Chinese cities are generating more food waste than they are able to accommodate in landfills, and cockroaches might be ways to get rid of hills of food scraps, providing healthful food for livestock once the bugs die and, some say, cures for gut illness and beauty treatments.
On the outskirts of Jinan, capital of eastern Shandong province, a billion cockroaches are being fed with 50 tons of kitchen waste a day - the same in weight to seven adult elephants.
The waste occurs until daybreak at the plant run by Shandong Qiaobin Agricultural Technology Co, where it is fed through pipes to cockroaches within their own cells.
Shandong Qiaobin intends to set up three more such plants next year, intending to process that a third of the kitchen waste produced by Jinan, home for about seven thousand people.
A nationwide ban on using food-waste as pig feed due to African swine fever outbreaks can be spurring the development of the cockroach industry.
Cockroaches are also a good source of nourishment for pigs and other livestock.
At a remote village in Sichuan,'' Li Bingcai, 4-7, has similar thoughts.
Li, once a mobile phone vendor, has invested a thousand yuan ($146,300) in cockroaches, which he sells to cows and fisheries as to medication companies as medicinal ingredients.
His farm currently has 3.4 million cockroaches.
"People think that it's strange I do this type of business," Li said. "It's great financial value, and also my goal is to lead other villagers to wealth if they follow my guide."
His village has two farms. Li's objective is to produce 20.
Elsewhere in Sichuan, a company named Good doctor is rearing six-billion cockroaches.
"The basis of cockroach is very good for curing bronchial and oral ulcers, skin fixes and even stomach cancer," said Wen Jian guo, manager of Good doctor's cockroach center.
Researchers are also looking at using cockroach extract in beauty masks, and even hair loss treatments.
At Good doctor, when cockroaches get to the end of their lifespan of roughly half an hour, they are crushed by steam, washed and dried, before being sent to an enormous nutrient extraction tank.
Asked about the chance of the cockroaches escaping, Wen stated that would be worth a tragedy movie but that he has had precautions China Use One Billion Cockroach to Get Rid of Kitchen Scraps
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