One group of New Jersey students won a national competition with a project aiming to combat climate change and food waste by creating their own soap using a sustainable ingredient from bugs.
Using repurposed materials, including a donated 5-gallon oil drum, these teenagers mixed the compost and black soldier flies into a container. After the fly larvae pupate, these critters contain a high-quality oil and are easily harvested at the surface.black soldier flies? These larvae not only productively digest organic waste but can break down harmful bacteria in the process, making the bug oil free of contaminants with a scent similar to that of almond butter.
On top of battling food waste, this project used bug oil to mold bars of bathroom soap, eliminating another driver of climate change — palm oil. "Having these sustainable oils, just like black soldier fly oil, being used in soaps and just starting to integrate that into something that people at least see, so that it becomes more normalized. Something we can actually see in our industries in the future," said Ngan Le, grade 11.
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