![]() ![]() “With 83% of the UK living in cities, an urban worm farming movement is essential for future food security and provides easy solutions for our kitchen waste.” ![]() “The process particularly lends itself to the urban environment with small-scale indoor, low-tech and low-cost systems,” De la Vega said. “The reality of climate change, natural resource depletion and mass urbanisation presents unprecedented threats to global food security and the survival of humanity.”Īs far as natural waste managers and fertiliser-producers go, worms are unmatchable: they can eat up to half their body weight in organic waste a day and reduce the volume of that waste by 90% in two to six months. ![]() “Using worms to manage organic household waste is happening at scale all over the world, except in the UK,” said Anna de la Vega, UWC’s managing director. The social enterprise has received a £50,000 grant from the national lottery to send out 1,000 packs of composting worms – known as tiger worms because of their red skin – to anybody with a DIY worm farm ready to house a population of 100. ![]()
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