Lesley Trott

In: UA Magazine 10 - Appropriate (Micro) Technologies for Urban Agriculture

Worms are the buzzword of the 21st Century and definitely in Lismore, Australia. Here, innovation in ecologically sustainable development (ESD) has resulted is the biggest 'state-of-the-art', fully automated worm farm in the world, employing 10 million worms to turn 6,000 tonnes a year of organic waste, into brown gold. Synergistic effort between the Lismore City Council Waste Minimisation Department and Tryton Waste Services has resulted in managing contamination.