March 27, 2000

 

Worm Composters Available to Apartment Residents

The City’s annual worm adoptionprogram gets underway again in April, when 200 worm composters will be made available to apartment residents.

For $25 (less than half the retail price), program participants will receive a 50-litre plastic tub containing 500 red wrigglers, a special type of worm ideal for turning organic waste into nutrient-rich soil conditioner for plants. The compact composters are sized for apartments or condominiums, and also include a tight-fitting lid, tray, bedding made from straw and paper mulch, a turning fork, and an instruction book.

Every composter comes with a mandatory hands-on "wormshop". The one-hour sessions will be run by volunteers and staff from City Farmer, a non-profit organization that operates the City-funded Vancouver Compost Demonstration Garden at 2150 Maple Street in Kitsilano and the GVRD-funded Compost Hotline.

To sign-up for a composter and workshop call the Compost Hotline at 736-2250.

Organic material makes up one-third of all household waste in Vancouver. The City is encouraging residents to compost at home to reduce landfill-bound waste. Home composting is cost effective because it eliminates collection costs.

This program is an extension of the City’s on-going backyard compost-bin distribution program, which has put more than 28,000 composters into Vancouver backyards to date.

 

Media enquiries:    

Lindsay Moffit
Solid Waste Management
871-6058

 

 

 

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