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The company’s Drummondville facility can process up to 90,000 tonnes of food residues annually, converting them into ingredients including proteins and oils. At full capacity, the project is expected to avoid more than 23,000 tonnes of CO₂ equivalent emissions each year, according to Entosystem.
The ENVOL project was independently verified in accordance with ISO 14064-3 and has been registered with the CSA Group’s EcoProjects GHG Registry. The verification quantifies emission reductions associated with diverting organic material from landfill.
“When we founded Entosystem, our objective was to develop an innovative insect-farming solution to divert significant volumes of food residues from landfill and transform them into useful products. Being able today to quantify and have the emission reductions generated by our model independently recognised is a very important milestone and a source of pride for all our employees,” said Cédric Provost, president and co-founder of Entosystem, in a press release.
Turning food residues into feed ingredients
Although the black soldier fly is at the heart of Entosystem’s biological process, its technology goes far beyond insect farming. Over nearly a decade of research, development and scale-up, Entosystem has developed an integrated industrial process capable of handling complex and variable pre-consumer food residues.
This innovation combines, among other things, technologies for separating and preparing materials, formulating them for bioconversion, rearing black soldier flies and processing them into finished products. These include proteins and oils for pet food, as well as frass, which is used as a biostimulant in agriculture. Entosystem said the technology could also be applied to other markets, including aquaculture feed.
Sanimax, Entosystem’s majority investor, said the independent verification provided further evidence of the model’s potential to divert organic materials from landfill and return them to productive use.
“At Sanimax, we believe we must always find new ways to give organic materials a second life. That is precisely what attracted us to Entosystem from the outset. Seeing its impact now recognised through independent certification marks an important milestone. This recognition demonstrates that it is possible to transform food residues that would otherwise have been lost into useful resources. This is exactly the kind of innovation we need to advance the circular economy,” said Martial Hamel, president and chief executive officer of Sanimax.
Idealist Capital is also an investor in Entosystem, while NEL-i helped structure the ENVOL project through to the commercialisation of its carbon credits.
