Why Australia’s biggest hotel is bringing in maggots

Australia’s biggest hotel, the 878-room Hyatt Regency near Darling Harbour, has found an unlikely but highly sustainable way to get rid of the piles of food waste it produces every day: feed it to hungry maggots.

Owned by Singaporean billionaire Michael Kum’s M&L Hospitality, the Sydney hotel is the first in the world to install a robot-controlled insect farm developed by Goterra, a waste management company founded by entrepreneur Olympia Yarger and backed by Mike Cannon-Brookes’ Grok Ventures.