New wormery in Wirral!
Staff and youngsters at The Observatory School have swapped the classroom for the garden.
Pupils at the school are recycling their food waste with the use of a wormery provided by Wirral Council Waste Management Team. The school has been using the wormery for a month and has already produced fertiliser which they have used as feed for their vegetable garden.
A wormery is a container housing special worms, which digest kitchen waste and small amounts of garden waste. The worms eat the waste and in a few months produce compost and a liquid, which forms a concentrated plant food.
Wirral’s Cabinet Member for Environment Councillor Gill Gardiner said,
“I have been really inspired by the work and dedication the pupils have put into the wormery. It is a fantastic and fun way to get children interested in recycling and worm composting. The children enjoy looking after the worms and getting their hands dirty producing good compost for use in the school garden.”
Across Merseyside over 130,000 tonnes of food is thrown away from homes each year. Worm composting is an easy, convenient, environmentally-friendly and efficient way of turning wasted kitchen scraps into high quality super-rich compost all the year round.
The school is 1 of 8 schools taking part in a trial to test out the wormeries.
