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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