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‘Fly farming can reduce waste, minimise need for landfills’

Protein from maggots can be harvested sustainably as flies are fed on waste, reducing the need for landfills and helping to slow climate change.

This was according to Simon Hazell, co-founder and CEO of Inseco, a fly farm near

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