Why should I consider having a wormery when I recycle waste in the bins provided by the local authority?

Good question.  Nearly all households are provided with a Green/Brown bin for the inclusion of garden/green kitchen waste. These bins were massed produced and are made from plastic. Those bins are collected by heavy lorries once a week, but more usually two weeks and the waste taken to numerous large processing plants that use heavy machinery, and converted to compost by aerobic composting system.  When ready, large lorries collect it to take to another site for packing and processing. Then numerous vehicles and machinery are used to deliver that material to other sites and ventures.  Some is used by the local authority in parks maintenance and urban planting.  The material produced is low quality but good as a packer for poor soils.

Imagine how many lorries, how much electric, fuels etc were involved for the local authority to process that waste? - Ring us and we will tell you from the figures released from your local authority. 

Local authorities process green & brown waste because by law, they have to.  In order to reduce the burden on landfill sites and the cost of landfill and incineration, most local authorities would not be able to cope with our household waste.

"Yes - but we have now got another bin for kitchen food waste from the local authority"

Some borough councils have released a bin specifically for kitchen/household waste that cannot go in the green/brown bin.  These bins are usually blue/red/green, depending on the area were you live. I would suggest going to the web site of your local authority and look more closely at the scheme.  You may find that as little as 16% of this kind of waste actually goes to be recycled - the rest is thrown in landfill.  This actually damages the environment more because a large amount of this kind of waste proves more harmful if dumped together rather than mixing with other waste - remember - local authorities are limiting what goes to landfill because of costs.  You may have seen the news recently how Manchester City Council cannot cope with the costs of recycling green waste.  The alternative will be landfill for many city councils.  The answer to reducing costs and collective carbon footprints - wormeries at homes and the work place

Using a Wormery


Reducing lorries on the road, processes that require fuels, electric and heavy machinery will reduce Carbon Emission. Recycling from the source - your home and converting waste to a valuable product means that waste is prevented from going to landfill.  The material produced aids the environment and local economy because we use the material for land regeneration, the excess worms we buy from you to stock other wormery systems and the money we pay you aids your local economy. We call this the Home Grow Project

Wormeries at work

Wormeries convert food waste to rich compost in two weeks. As we supply 1 kilo of worms per unit, the worms will convert the same weight in food waste - daily!