| THE COMPOST HEAP |
| The Worm-a-Roo recieves its vegetable scraps. Red Wiggler earthworms in English class room. For further Vermi-Composting news visit Worm Digest. for the last six years our school has produced almost 500 lbs. of vermi-compost. |
| This brand of bin is called the Reln Worm Factory aka Wriggly Wranch, which is a stacking tray system and is made from recycled automotive batteries in Australia. Mr. Vincent and Jamie O. are putting compost in the worm bin during the first of October. |
| This brand of bin is called a Worm Wig-Wam and is our largest composter, which is a continuous flow system. |
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| The purpose of the Witts Springs composting program is to reduce the amount of solid waste that we would usually just put in landfills. Students also get to learn about how paper and vegetable waste that the school produces gets turned into compost which can be used to enhance a soil's quality. Also we get to study earth worm anatomy and reproduction as well as the composting process. |
| The moving grid in the Worm Wig-Wam allows mature compost to fall into a collecting area where it can be gathered by students and used as a soil amendment. |
| This last school year, our community produced nearly 500 lbs. of vermi-compost. |
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| As this graph shows, over 60% of our landfill waste is organic and could be recycled or composted if Americans weren't so concerned with convenience over environmental degradation. |
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| The Worm-a-Roo receives its vegetable scraps. |
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| A variegated peperomia is given some worm tea. This process will make the plant more healthy. |