RECYCLING & WASTE MANAGEMENT
CREATURE CREDENTIALS
More and more businesses look for ways to show their green credentials, from recycling to adding plants to their offices. Installing a wormery at your place
of business is another step to reducing your carbon footprint and increasing your green credentials according to Enterprise Plants.
Wormeries can play a big part in reducing landfill. What’s more, wormeries are great for disposing of food waste and they don’t smell. And someone – or rather something – else does all the hard work.
In the UK we throw away about 7 million tonnes of food waste every year, which goes into landfill. By recycling your food waste in a wormery, not only do you avoid adding to the landfill but also you reduce costs and carbon footprint transporting your food waste to landfill sites.
WHAT IS A WORMERY? A wormery is a large compost bin
where Dendrobaena worms eat the microbes and turn the waste food into compost. The organic compost called vermicompost, is top quality and can be used on your
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surrounding grounds and plant beds; brilliant recycling!
It’s really going back to our roots. By this we mean it’s giving a natural process some credibility again – after all this is what the worms were created to do; it’s natural and better for the planet.
MANAGING YOUR
WORMERY Commercial wormeries do need good management but don’t worry because reliable supply and installation companies such as Enterprise Plants make sure it is set up properly and your staff are trained to operate and manage the food waste processing.
You can watch Wayne Bryant, ‘worm master’ at Enterprise Plants explain all you need to know about wormeries in our online tutorial. Wayne explains
how the food waste is ground into smaller, manageable pieces so that the worms can process it.
When this ‘salad’ is added to the wormery, it is warm and attracts the worms to the surface to engage with the foodstuff. As the food waste breaks down, the worms feed off the microbes and eventually ‘consume’ the waste.
The worms don’t have teeth so adding food already macerated means they can consume it more quickly. If they don’t appear to be feeding as quickly as normal add some sand or grit to the food waste. This helps the worms to grind the food waste into smaller particles in their gullet.
Large commercial wormeries hold a lot of worms. The one used in the tutorial has 40,000 worms inside. But they are unlikely to multiply
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