$6M Federal loan helps Turn Maggots Into animal Feed

Enterra Feed Corp. has tapped into Ottawa’s latest push to curb food waste to boost its business of transforming maggots into animal feed. enterra used a $6-million federal loan to help equip its 188,000-square-foot facility near Calgary with specialized machinery that processes discarded fruit and vegetables from a government program designed to keep food from landfills. Maple ridge, B.c.-based enterra feeds food that was bound for the dumpster to black soldier fly larvae, which are processed into high-protein feed ingredients for pet, fish and poultry. The company’s Alberta facility expects to recycle more than 130 metric tons of such waste daily by mid 2021, using scraps collected from farms, grocery stores and processors.