Transform your food waste into premium compost — using a bucket of worms? Vermicomposting — employing worms to break down food scraps — can provide top-notch fertilizer and help reduce landfill waste.

Four months ago the civic body bought a total of 90 beds of vermi-compost for Rs 2,500 each to treat bio-degradable waste of the city. But now instead of municipal solid waste (MSW) only leaves are ...

Myles Stubblefield was a self-described “dirty kid" growing up in Buffalo, New York. “I had my hands in every dirt pile," he tells Treehugger. "I played with worms every time we went fishing, and any ...

Slowly, but surely, the face of villages is changing for the better with people getting acquainted with segregation of garbage. Not only that, the garbage is being transformed to vermicompost and used ...

Mumbai: In a bid to promote waste segregation and disposal at its source, the BMC has set up vermi-composting units at 11 places including its ward offices and near Mantralaya. With the construction ...

Efficient management of wet waste and disposal of dry leaves are among the biggest problems that civic bodies of all major cities face. The units are being set up at the corners of the park These ...