Brakspruit Compost & Earthworms
BENIFITS PLANT GROWTH
Feedstock for your Small-scale & Large-scale compost system
Small: All fruits, vegetables, coffee grounds, filters, tea bags, bread, crackers, cereal, eggshells(rinsed off), leaves and grass clippings
Large(needs large quantities of food): Sewage sludge, brewery waste, cotton mill waste, argricultural waste, food processing and grocery waste, cafeteria waste, grass clippings and wooden chips.
Benifits
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Improves soil aeration,
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Enriches soil with micro-organisms (adding enzymes such as phosphatase and cellulase),
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Microbial activity in worm castings is 10 to 20 times higher than soil and organic matter that the worm ingests,
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Improves water holding capacity.
Plant Growth
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Enhance germination, plant growth, and crop yield,
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Improves root growth structure
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Enriches soil with micro-organisms
Economic
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Wastes conversion reduces waste flow to landfills,
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Elimination of bio-waste from waste stream reduces contamination of other recyclables collected in single bin,
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Creates lo-skill jobs at local level,
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Low capital investment and relatively simple technologies make vermi-composting practical for less development agricultural regoins.
Environmental
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Helps close the "metabolic gap" through recycling waste on-site,
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Production reduces "greenhouse gas emissions" such as methane and nitric oxide ( produced in landfille or incinerators
when not composted or through methane harvest).