ReFeed’s new vertical worm farm is turning discarded food into useable products
A previous job back in the mid-2010s found Stuart Lilley visiting operators within the food industry, identifying their food waste and then finding ways to divert that waste from landfills to livestock feed.
He began envisioning a system where excess food went back to people first, then to livestock and that whatever remained could still avoid the fate of a landfill or composting facility. The business model sees produce warehouses, distributors and importers pay ReFeed to collect by-product that would otherwise be used for composting.
“It reduces the cost and the requirements for food banks and other charities from having to do it themselves, which would have been their own costs, and reduces their labour,” Lilley said. About six million worms can live within ReFeed’s three-level vertical worm farm when it’s at full capacity, eating and pooping out about 1,000 kilograms of manure – or worm castings – a day .
For example, farmers can pay ReFeed to take their own manure cakes, centrifuge the manure and then use that product as feed for the worms. The products that come out of the subsequent worm castings can then be used for regenerative farming practices.
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