Thursday, July 11, 2013

Worm Composting at Charlotte Airport


The nation’s tenth busiest airport, Charlotte Douglas International, sees about forty million passengers annually. Forty million passengers, among other things, generate a lot of trash, approximately half a pound per person.

That’s why officials have implemented a new system to cut down on waste sent to the landfill using some unusual participants: almost 2 million worms. Yes, worms, the kind you find in your backyard and in fishing tackle boxes. They’re nature’s composters, and they’re being enlisted to help manage the millions of pounds of waste the airport generates.  Read the entire article.

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