Workers sort kitchen waste to feed cockroaches at a waste processing facility in Shandong province, China. Photos: Reuters
In the near pitch-dark, you can hear them before you see them – millions of cockroaches scuttling and fluttering across stacks of wooden boards as they devour food scraps by the tonne in a novel form of urban waste disposal.
The air is warm and humid – just as cockroaches like it – to ensure the colonies keep their health and voracious appetites.
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