All over the world, agriculture and agri-food industries inevitably generate losses.
- fruit and vegetables discarded after harvest because they are out of size or damaged (apples, melons, etc.)
- unused parts of fruit and vegetables (carrot tops, cocoa pods)
- non-marketed fruit of ripening
- unsold products from markets and retailers
- Residues from the agri-food processing industries: fruit and vegetable peelings and waste from canneries, fruit juice pressing residues, brewery spent grains, grape marc, olive pomace ...
- non-compliant products, with an expiry date exceeded, whose cold chain has been broken (bakeries, pastry shops, dairies, canneries, etc.)
- cereal products (wheat bran, rice bran, etc.).
The quantities concerned in the world represent hundreds of millions of tonnes. Bioconversion by insects is a virtuous solution, recycling these losses in resources for agriculture.
