S4E2 - Composting Worms

The Animal Highlight

Wormeries are becoming increasingly popular in cities so in this episode Herre de Bondt considers a creature at the center of this trend, worms, and how their lives are entwined with practices of composting.
Recorded: 2 October 2023.

Featured:

• Vermicomposting makes your garden grow on Homegrown
• Earthworms are more important than pandas (if you want to save the planet) by Sarah Johnson.
• Waste recycling: Utilization of coffee grounds and kitchen waste in vermicomposting by A.J. Adi and Z.M Moor.
• Technical and user evaluation of a novel worm-based, on-site sanitation system in rural India by Claire Furlong et al.
• Reactor performance and pathogen removal during wastewater treatment by vermifiltration by Arora Sudipti Arora and A.A. Kazmi
• Urban Metabolism with Catherine Oliver on The Animal Turn.
• Swedish firm deploys crows to pick up cigarette butts by Daniel Boffey on The Guardian
• Animal waste work. The case of urban sewage management in Sweden by Tora Holmberg.
• Defending Animals by Kendra Coulter.
• Feeding the worms by Danusha Laméris.

Credits:

• Claudia Hirtenfelder, executive producer and host
• Herre de Bondt, co-host and co-editor
• Christiaan Mentz, sound editor and producer
• Rebecca Shen, content producer and designer (logo and episode artwork)
• Gordon Clarke, bed music composer
• Learn more about the team here.

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1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. Worms, Food Waste, and Vermicomposting (00:01:10)

3. Keystone Species (00:03:20)

4. Urban Metabolism (00:08:30)

5. The Ethics of Using Worms (00:10:55)

6. Feeding the Worms (00:13:20)

7. Credits (00:15:56)