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I was recently thinking about all the waste that the worm squirm here at Texas Worm Ranch has saved from the landfill this year.  We also have regular composting going on, and I send some stuff to the Community Garden composting when we are overloaded with goodies here.  Here's a quick rundown, all approximate, of what we have removed:

Family veggie and fruit scraps:  average of 5 lbs a day X 365 days= 1825 lbs
Halloween Pumpkins from us, friends, and picked up curbside;  at least 100 pumpkins of various sizes, avg size 6 lbs = 600 lbs

Worms eating Pumpkin Waste--photo credit Melanie O'Neill

Restaurant Scraps from local cafe:  75 lbs week (started in Sept.) =1200 lbs
Newspaper and Cardboard for bedding:  10 lbs/week= 520 lbs
Straw bales picked up curbside after Halloween=5 bales at 40 lbs=200 lbs
Bags of Leaves picked up on Curbside=40 bags X 20 lb average=800 lbs
Garden Waste= 100 lbs of plant trimmings=100 lbs

So, drumroll please,.....we are somewhere in the vicinity of having removed 5,245 lbs of waste from the City landfill.  That is over 2 1/2 tons of waste!  Also, you have to wonder how much fuel and how much pollution was saved from reducing capacity in the city dump trucks as they drove to and fro?

All this waste goes to awesome use as vermicompost and Worm WIne to fuel my gardens and my wonderful customers' gardens or for compost for the Texas Worm Ranch or the Lake Highlands Community Garden.