A literal butterfly effect on sustainable development

Norbite transforms plastic waste into sustainable goods by means of an insect-based biorefinery.

The selected insect, Galleria mellonella, possess the extraordinary capacity to naturally digest plastic. Norbite has developed a proprietary vertical farming technology to enable the insects to perform at industrial scale. To produce sustainable goods, the obtained larvae are bio-refined to get proteins, for food and feed; antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) - to fight multidrug resistant bacteria (MDR); elicitors – to reinforce natural plants’ defenses and avoid the utilization of pesticides; and even the dejections of the insects are used as biofertilizers, making this process a perfect example of circular economy.