We believe that being responsible is good for business

Helping the poor and the under privileged and providing part of a solution to an environmental problem can be a good profitable business.

Co-Prot impact on social- environmental  factors:


Social

1. Provide direct employment to about 15 Cambodian employees
2. Direct purchase program of organic waste for reasonable price  from the waste pickers working on the waste belt (about 20 tons per day, enough to provide for about 30 families)
3. Work together with NGOs to promote waste pickers to use their earnings to improve their living conditions, improve sanitation and education.
   
4. Teach and support rural farmers to rear Black Soldier Fly Larva in return for buy-back program. - a new income source for rural communities.
   

Environmental

1. Promotion of waste separation trough organic waste purchase plans.
2. Organic waste volume reduction of about 50%.
3. Up-cycling of organic waste to 3 products: proteins, fats and fertilizer.
4. Production of sustainable protein source which otherwise would come from less sustainable operation: one ton of insect meal can theoretically save about 0.5 hectare of soy crop or about 4 tons of wild caught fish.