What are the benefits of worm composting?

Answer 1

The Importance of WormsWorms play the most important part in the ecosystem. They clean it up and do the natural recycling. They eat and make soil fertile. The pathways created by their movement help the soil breath and drink. Worms help air and water to get in to the soil and this helps plants grow because there is more of a chance that the plants root can get more oxygen and water.

Compost worms can also be kept in worm farms and compost bins to divert kitchen waste and vegetable scraps away from landfill (where its decomposition produces methane) and into the production of humus.

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Answer 2

God made everything for a reason. Worms are helpful because they eat decaying plants & they also feed by taking soil & digest plant pieces. If worms did not exist today then what would we do with all the dead plant? It would be overcrowding and it would get everywhere right. Another thing worms do is eat dead animal matter. When a animal would die the worm would eat it's remains. Kind of gross but it is true.

Answer 3

Reduced numbers of landfills, reduced amounts of garbage and of greenhouse gases, and improved quality of the soil are reasons why worm composting is helpful to the environment. Worms break down compostable materials such as certain kitchen scraps. What they break down otherwise would have ended up in landfills. So worms reduce the amount of solid waste that fills up landfills.

The breakdown of materials in landfills is anaerobic. Anaerobic breakdown is carried on without the presence of oxygen, and with the presence of methane, which is a greenhouse gas. Reducing the amount of solid waste increases the lifespan of landfills, and decreases the production of methane.

Through worm composting, certain kinds of compostable materials are taken in by worms. The materials pass through the worms' bodies and are eliminated. The droppings actually are rich in nutrients. The accumulation of droppings adds organic matter to soil. But it's dark brown, rich organic matter.

The end products, of worm composting or of compost piles, may be used as mulch, or as natural fertilizer. And that makes for healthier plant growth and soil structure; and for less soil erosion, less soil compaction, less nutrient runoff, and less contamination of water bodies.

Answer 4

Worm composting is a smart way to recycle household waste. A worm composting system harnesses red compost worms, Eisenia fetida, and a contained forest floor ecosystem to convert kitchen scraps and shredded paper into worm castings, one of the best organic fertilizers you can get.

Worm castings are a great source of both short-term and long-term soil nutrients for vegetables, houseplants, and especially, container gardens. But they don't just provide nutrients, they also improve soil structure and water-holding capacity.

The last chamber of the worm gut contains beneficial fungi and bacteria, and the castings are inoculated with these organisms as they pass through. The bacteria and fungi form a water-absorbing web between the soil particles. Plants are able to draw moisture--and nutrients--from this web, even when surrounding soil is drying out.

These beneficial fungi and bacteria also help protect your plants from diseases by attacking, or competing with, disease-causing organisms in the soil.

As an added bonus, worm composting reduces your household carbon footprint. In landfills, kitchen scraps and waste paper break down into methane, a potent greenhouse gas that traps 26 times as much heat as carbon dioxide. In a worm composting bin, some of the carbon is bound into complex humic acids that last for decades in the soil, and the rest is given off as carbon dioxide.

Setting up a worm bin is also a great project to do with kids.

Answer 5

Decreasing landfills, discouraging greenhouse gases, encouraging recycling, and improving soil are ways in which a compost bin helps to save the environment.

Specifically, a compost bin accommodates compostable materials which otherwise might go into landfills and support greenhouse gases through landfill-generated anaerobic breakdowns. It also encourages prudent use of resources through the recycling of materials to be re-used in gardening-related endeavors. For example, the compost produced in a compost bin may be added to soil as a fertilizer or a mulch.

Answer 6

They break down materials into a usable nutritious ingredient to grow things

the also aeriate the soil

Answer 7

Worms are useful to the environment because they make the soil fertile, they help water and air get to the soil, and they recycle all the bad things in the soil.

Answer 8

Earthworms are important to an ecosystem because their poo provides compost for the soil. They are also food for some birds

Answer 9

Earth worms eat the dirt and when they defecate, they add nutrients to the soil. It's like cow manure, only more effective and less smelly.

Answer 10

Earthworms dig holes in the soil which aerates it. In addition, the worms digest organic matter which enriches the soil.