Increase moisture and nutrient retention in your soil.Produce useable compost year round, faster than alternative methods.Vermicompost has more nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, copper, zinc, and iron than farmyard manure.Products of your vermicompost can be used horticulturally for the benefit of houseplants and gardens. Make your own nutrient-packed organic fertilizers for free purchasing similar nutrient-rich fertilizer costs an average of $50 per 10 pound bag.Avoid “tipping fees” for green waste implemented by many landfill diversion sites.
Implementing the three R’s (reducing, reusing, and recycling) into your lifestyle through vermicomposting benefits you financially! Lactic acid is found abundantly in nature, including in our bodies.Avoid fruit flies by covering food scraps with a few inches of bedding and/or freeze food scraps before adding them to your vermicompost bin. *Polylactic acid, or PLA for short, is a plant-based and compostable bioplastic made from corn starch. Available in both Cape Town and Johannesburg.
If you’re wanting to do some worm farming of your own, you can contact Luke at 0 to buy worm farms. Read this blog post, and this one too, if you’d like to learn more. We know that it is best suited to in-vessel compost machines and large-scale composting, where conditions allow microbial activity to create temperatures above 50☌. We also weren’t too surprised that thicker PLA isn’t suitable. It’s great to know most of our products break down in worm farms. But when it comes to PLA bioplastic, they’ll only eat very thin layers – don’t feed them anything thicker than a Hot Cup. Earthworms do eat compostable packaging! Almost all of our products, including our Wood Cellulose Clear Bags.
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