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From poo to food: Kenyan toilet waste key for new animal feed

Chicken Feed Victor Kyallo
Victor Kyalo holds half a dozen eggs at his small household farm in the outskirts of Nairobi [Photo, Reuters]

Kenyan farmer Victor Kyalo’s chickens have doubled the number of eggs they are laying. The reason: Human excrement.

He is feeding them food from a Nairobi-based organics recycling company. Sanergy harvests waste from toilets it operates in a franchise network in Nairobi’s sprawling slums and feeds it to fly larvae, which become high-quality animal feed.

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