In the fish market in Male, every day except for Friday, fish waste gets dumped into the ocean. That is eight to twelve tons of waste per day.

Yet, there are many alternate ways to use that organic waste into something useful:

- Fish waste from the fish market can be best utilised in the production of organic fertilizers and composts, which have immense benefits over imported unsterilized organic fertilizers and chemical-based products.

- The Maldives Industrial Fisheries Company (MIFCO)?s fish processing unit in Lhaviyani Felivaru produces fish meal from fish waste for exports as ingredient for cattle feeds.

- Fish waste can also be used in producing biogas in a process called anaerobic digestion, and is a renewable source of energy rich in methane and carbon dioxide, appropriate for energy production and could help in replacing fossil fuels in the Maldives attempts to become carbon neutral by 2020.
(Anaerobic digestion is the process whereby organic materials breakdown naturally by anaerobic bacteria in the absence of oxygen and produce biogas as waste products.)

- in the biogas anaerobic digestion process the nutrient-rich solids left after digestion can be used as fertilizer