THE BIOPOD™:
Food Waste Composter & Grub Grower
Recycle your Kitchen Scraps into Free, Nutritious
BioGrubs™!
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 organisms to digest and decompose your kitchen waste, while producing valuable finished products. Time Lapse Photos
The specific
bioconversion process by which valuable proteins and fats
and captured and recycled, rather than degraded, into
usable biomass by a beneficial decomposer is referred to as
Prota™Culture. The signature species utilized in our
systems is the juvenile
Black Soldier Fly,
Hermetia illucens, which we
lovingly call BioGrubs™. Virtually harmless to pets, humans
and wildlife, this native arthropod does not spread
disease, cannot bite or sting, and will not annoy you at
backyard picnics!
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
BioGrubs™ - which are the ultimate 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
Prota™Pod
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 Prota™Pod 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 larval biomass is roughly 24%.
