THE BIOPOD™: Food Waste Composter & Grub Grower The specific bioconversion process by which valuable proteins and fats are captured and recycled, rather than degraded, into usable biomass by a beneficial decomposer is referred to as
Recycle your Kitchen Scraps into Free, Nutritious Soldier Grubs!
Newest Breakthrough Technology
The new residential BioPod™ is the latest patented technology to hit the home composting market. Over 8 years of R&D, combined with thorough testing on 3 different continents, has produced the first commercially available system.
Uber-Fast Composting
While many compost bins can take 6-12 months to break down their contents, the BioPod™ can eliminate most of your food scraps in as little as 24-36 hours. Like composting and vermiculture, the BioPod™ uses beneficial grubs to digest and decompose your kitchen waste, while producing valuable finished products.
The Future: Grub Composting
Valuable Finished Products
A working BioPod™ can easily handle the daily food scraps produced by a large family – up to 5 lbs per day. It can even digest pet feces. For every 100 lbs of kitchen scraps you will get 5 lbs of friable compost, a few quarts of nutritious compost tea, and approx. 20 lbs of self-harvesting grubs - which are the freshest fish, herp, and bird food.
Compliments Existing Compost & Worm Bins
The BioPod™ is not designed for yard waste, but it will keep the critters out of your compost bin by diverting all the food scraps away from your pile of temptation. The friable compost, though relatively small in quantity, will serve as the perfect worm food, and allow you to make vermicompost faster than you ever thought possible!
Commercial ProtaPod™
These larger bioconversion units were specifically designed to target the most problematic fraction of municipal solid waste (MSW): food scraps. The commercial pods were engineered to nest on standard pallets, simplifying storage and transport. Racking of units will allow for scalable operations on multiple levels, to best utilize floor space. The compact, self-contained design allows for one person cleaning and relocation. Effluent fixtures are accessible from below, and compatible with US plumbing standards for centralized liquid management.
Like their residential counterpart, the
ProtaPod™ efficiently re-captures the valuable lipids and proteins from the waste stream and converts them into useable biomass. The capacity of an active system is measured in waste processed per surface area over a given period of time. With food waste the figure is roughly 15 kg/m2/day (3 lbs/ft2/day). That equates to an impressive 9.5 kg of kitchen scraps per day, in a optimally active, half full commercial system. The bioconversion rate for mixed household food scraps is roughly 20%, with a larval dry matter content of approximately 40-42% protein and 34-35% fat. On a dry matter basis by weight, the bioconversion of food waste into grubs is roughly 24%.