Can You Solve The Food Waste Problem With Fly Larvae?

Hungry Hungry Hermetia

an colored cartoon illustration of four children of different race and gender playing what looks like "Hungry Hippo" but the hippos are larva and they are eating rotten food waste

Food waste is a real problem in the world today. Can you design an economic and environmental solution—with fly larvae?

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