Benefits to plants aside for a moment, how exactly does “vermicomposting” benefit people?
One of the most pressing problems we face, as a society today, is what to do about the tremendous amounts of waste materials we produce. Landfills everywhere are reaching capacity, and even if we can find locations to establish new facilities, there will still be the problem of contamination and pollution caused by dumping these massive amounts of garbage. On the other hand, as our amount of waste increases, the available supply of many necessary resources diminishes. In the United States alone, “approximately 2% of all the natural gas that is consumed goes into the manufacture of nitrogen fertilizer.”–(The Rodale Book of Composting, 1992, p.67) Perhaps the lowly little worm will never completely solve either of these problems, but if given a chance, it could certainly lend a welcome hand. Approximately 70% of all the material currently entering our landfills, as well as all the farmyard manure in North America, and immeasurable amounts of yard wastes on top of that, are perfectly sui
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