Teaching children about vermicomposting

Article Abstract:

The US Dept. of Agriculture Food and Consumer Service granted a Special Agriculture and Nutrition Program Grant of $99,500 to a gardening and vermicomposting project in Maine. Teaching 400 students to care for worms and setting up vermicomposting bins inside the classrooms has helped two Maine teachers to get other teachers from all over the US interested to integrate the program into their own curricula. The vermicompost they produced was used to plant vegetable and herb gardens in their school, further stressing vermicomposting to students.

Case studies, Children, Environmental aspects, Study and teaching, Compost, Ecology, Environment and children, Waste disposal in the ground, Underground waste disposal, Earthworms

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Roving for household hazardous waste

Article Abstract:

Inhabitants of rural Chittenden County, VT, have two efficient facilities for the management of household hazardous wastes. Environmental Depot is one perennial facility in Burlington. Rover, is a custom-built mobile waste collection unit which gathers waste from the adjacent areas. Both these facilities are governed by the Chittenden Solid Waste District, a nonprofit consortium managing solid waste for 16 of the 18 towns and cities in Chittenden County.

Waste management, Households, Hazardous wastes, Chittenden, Vermont

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