Wormery installed at Timespan

This week Timespan Museum and Arts Centre in Helmsdale took an important step towards reducing its waste, with the installation of a wormery.

The wormery was set up by volunteers from RoWAN, a Highland based waste awareness charity, as part of a workshop for European Week for Waste Reduction. It will take cooked and uncooked food waste from the Centre’s cafe and convert it into liquid plant food and compost.

Reducing the amount of food sent to landfill is an important contribution to tackling climate change.

RoWAN Zero Waste Volunteer Co-ordinator Caroline Eccles said: “When food waste ends up in a landfill site it rots down in a way that gives off methane, a powerful climate change gas. Wormeries are a good way of dealing with food waste and making a difference for the environment, as well as being fun.”

For more information on this, other ways of reducing your food waste and volunteering with RoWAN see www.rowan.org.uk or ring 01349 867963 or 07730208850.

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