Mechanical engineering professor David Hu uses bugs to compost food waste on campus to create an organic fertilizer.
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Professor David Hu is using insects to compost campus food waste more efficiently. The mechanical engineer uses a unique closed-loop system that allows black soldier flies to eat twice their body weight in one day and produce an organic byproduct fertilizer called frass.
Join Georgia Tech undergraduate Harrison Burnside on the latest episode of Engineered at Tech as he discovers how this new urban composting process is faster and more sustainable than traditional composting.
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