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Recovery of Food Wastes for Maggot Production as Animal Feed and Potential Tool to Solid Waste Management

Kulyash Meiramkulova
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Gulmira Adilbektegi
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Galym Baituk
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Aigul Kurmanbayeva
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Anuarbek Kakabayev
,
Arysgul Turbekova
,
Timoth Mkilima
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Version 1 : Received: 27 October 2021 / Approved: 29 October 2021 / Online: 29 October 2021 (13:04:44 CEST)
Version 2 : Received: 24 January 2022 / Approved: 24 January 2022 / Online: 24 January 2022 (14:16:03 CET)

How to cite: Meiramkulova, K.; Adilbektegi, G.; Baituk, G.; Kurmanbayeva, A.; Kakabayev, A.; Turbekova, A.; Mkilima, T. Recovery of Food Wastes for Maggot Production as Animal Feed and Potential Tool to Solid Waste Management. Preprints 2021, 2021100454. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202110.0454.v1 Meiramkulova, K.; Adilbektegi, G.; Baituk, G.; Kurmanbayeva, A.; Kakabayev, A.; Turbekova, A.; Mkilima, T. Recovery of Food Wastes for Maggot Production as Animal Feed and Potential Tool to Solid Waste Management. Preprints 2021, 2021100454. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202110.0454.v1

Abstract

Waste recovery is an important aspect towards human and environmental health protection. Unfortunately, proper food waste management is among the serious challenges in the field of solid waste management worldwide. Therefore, it is of great importance to conduct studies towards achieving efficient and cost-effective approaches for food waste management. This study investigated the potential of recovering food waste through maggots’ production as animal feed. The influence of fly attractant application on maggot production was also investigated. The study also investigated the potential of maggot production for waste recovery and reduction. Four different types of food waste (starch food leftovers, rotten bananas and peels, rotten pineapple and peels, and rotten oranges) were used in the investigation process. From the results, it was observed that the application of fly attractants had a significant effect on the production of maggots as determined by the weights after harvesting. Average weight of 94 g/kg of maggot was achieved from banana materials with an application of fly attractant during the 8th day of the cultivation; which is equivalent to a 32.4% increase from the same day when the material was cultured without applying fly attractant. Also, from the starch materials, about 77 g/kg of maggot weight was achieved; which is a 54.6% increase from the same day and the same material but without application of fly attractant. Moreover, the relative dry weight reduction in the trials varied from 52.5% to 82.4%.

Keywords

food waste recovery; maggot production; environmental protection; animal feed; solid waste management

Subject

Engineering, Automotive Engineering

Copyright: This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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