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<div class="search-block-form block block-search container-inline" data-drupal-selector="search-block-form" id="header-search" role="search">
|
||
<div id="search-form">
|
||
<form region="nav_search_header" action="/search/thundersearch" method="get" id="search-block-form" accept-charset="UTF-8">
|
||
<div class="js-form-item form-item js-form-type-search form-type-search js-form-item-keys form-item-keys form-no-label">
|
||
<label for="edit-keys" class="visually-hidden">Search</label>
|
||
<input title="Enter the terms you wish to search for." data-drupal-selector="edit-keys" type="search" id="search" name="query" value="" size="15" maxlength="128" class="queryAutocomplete" placeholder="Search Kids Pages" />
|
||
|
||
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div data-drupal-selector="edit-actions" class="form-actions js-form-wrapper form-wrapper" id="edit-actions"><input data-drupal-selector="edit-submit" type="submit" id="edit-submit" value="Search" class="button js-form-submit form-submit" aria-label="Search site by keywords" />
|
||
</div>
|
||
|
||
</form>
|
||
|
||
</div>
|
||
</div>
|
||
|
||
|
||
</div>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</header>
|
||
<div id="mobile-header-nav">
|
||
<div class="nav">
|
||
<nav role="navigation" aria-labelledby="block-mainnavigation-menu" id="block-mainnavigation" class="kids-navigation">
|
||
|
||
<h2 class="visually-hidden" id="block-mainnavigation-menu">Main navigation</h2>
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
<div class="menu-item menu-topics selected menu-item--expanded menu-item--active-trail menu-level-0">
|
||
<ul class="nav-topics">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/topics" class="nav-topics-a" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/2"> <div class="icon" id="topics">
|
||
<img alt="Navigation Icon, Click to Explore" src="/sites/niehs-kids/themes/custom/niehs_kids/web-resources/images/icon-nav-topics.svg" width="50" height="50">
|
||
</div>
|
||
<span class="nav-roll-forced">Topics</span>
|
||
</a>
|
||
<div class="expand_button">Expand<span class="expand_lines"></span></div>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-1">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/topics/chemicals" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1756">Chemicals</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-1">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/topics/environment-health" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/6">Environment & Health</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-1">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/topics/healthy-living" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/7">Healthy Living</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-1">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/topics/pollution" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/16">Pollution</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-1">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/topics/reduce" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/17">Reduce, Reuse, Recycle</a>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/topics/reduce/compact-fluorescent-lights" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/106">Compact Fluorescent Lights</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/topics/reduce/plastics" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1806">Plastics</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/topics/reduce/worms" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/111" class="is-active" aria-current="page">NIEHS's 'Worm Wigwams' Welcome Wiggly Waste Watchers</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/topics/reduce/recycle" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/114">Recycle</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/topics/reduce/reduce-waste" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/115">Reduce Waste</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/topics/reduce/reuse" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/116">Reuse</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/topics/reduce/vermicomposting" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/118">Vermicomposting</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-1">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/topics/how-science-works" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/18">Science – How It Works</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-1">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/topics/natural-world" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/19">The Natural World</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="menu-item menu-games menu-item--expanded menu-level-0">
|
||
<ul class="nav-games">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games" class="nav-games-a" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/3"> <div class="icon" id="games">
|
||
<img alt="Navigation Icon, Click to Explore" src="/sites/niehs-kids/themes/custom/niehs_kids/web-resources/images/icon-nav-games.svg" width="50" height="50">
|
||
</div>
|
||
<span class="nav-roll-forced">Games</span>
|
||
</a>
|
||
<div class="expand_button">Expand<span class="expand_lines"></span></div>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-1">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/brainteasers" data-drupal-link-system-path="games/brainteasers">Brainteasers</a>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/brainteasers/brainteaser-quizzes" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1653">Brainteaser Quizzes</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/brainteasers/double-speak-proverbs" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1654">Double-Speak Proverbs!</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/brainteasers/matching-game" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1657">Matching Game for NIEHS Birds!</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/brainteasers/puzzling-proverbs" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1672">New Twists on Old Proverbs!</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/brainteasers/numbers-and-initials" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1668">Numbers and Initials Puzzles!</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/brainteasers/palindromes" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1669">Palindromes</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/brainteasers/parts-of-the-brain" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1670">Parts of Your Brain, and What They Do!</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/brainteasers/puzzling-numbers" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1671">Puzzling Numbers Games</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/brainteasers/quizzes" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1673">Quizzes</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/brainteasers/rebus-puzzles" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1685">Rebus Puzzles Brainteasers</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/brainteasers/tuff-stuff-riddles" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1687">Tuff Stuff Riddles</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/brainteasers/scientific-dictionary" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1686">What's That Word?</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/brainteasers/winter-holiday-fun" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1688">Winter Holiday Fun</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/brainteasers/frog-leap" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1655">The Frog Leap Brainteaser Game!</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/brainteasers/word-brainteasers" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1689">Word Brainteasers</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-1">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/emojis" data-drupal-link-system-path="games/emojis">Emoji Games</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-1">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/puzzles" data-drupal-link-system-path="games/puzzles">Puzzles</a>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/puzzles/at-the-farm" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1588">At the Farm (Hidden Pictures)</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/puzzles/climates-of-the-world" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1589">Climates of the World</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/puzzles/goldfish-maze" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1590">Goldfish Maze!</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/puzzles/hidden-words" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1592">Hidden Words</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/puzzles/in-the-sea" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1593">In the Sea! (Hidden Pictures)</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/puzzles/johnny-appleseed" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1594">Johnny Appleseed (Hidden Pictures)</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/puzzles/puzzling-physics" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1595">Puzzling Physics</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/puzzles/puzzling-science" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1596">Puzzling Science</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/puzzles/puzzling-space" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1597">Puzzling Space</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/puzzles/science-challenge-a-z" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1598">Science Challenge - A to Z</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/puzzles/science-scrambles-game" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1599">Science Scrambles Game</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/puzzles/scrambled-science" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1600">Scrambled Science</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/puzzles/whats-wrong" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1601">What's Wrong with These Pictures?</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/puzzles/hidden-pictures" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1591">Wooly Mammoths (Hidden Pictures)</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/puzzles/worm-maze" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1602">Worm Maze</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-1">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/riddles" data-drupal-link-system-path="games/riddles">Riddles</a>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/riddles/classroom-bloopers" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1605">Classroom Bloopers</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/riddles/illusions" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1606">Illusions</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/riddles/jokes" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1629">Jokes</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/riddles/not-so-hard-riddles" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1640">Not So Hard Riddles</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/riddles/one-or-the-other" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1691">One or the Other</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-2">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/riddles/philosophically-speaking" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1651">Philosophically Speaking</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-1">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/games/songs" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/28">Songs</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="menu-item menu-activities menu-item--expanded menu-level-0">
|
||
<ul class="nav-activities">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/activities" class="nav-activities-a" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/4"> <div class="icon" id="activities">
|
||
<img alt="Navigation Icon, Click to Explore" src="/sites/niehs-kids/themes/custom/niehs_kids/web-resources/images/icon-nav-activities.svg" width="50" height="50">
|
||
</div>
|
||
<span class="nav-roll-forced">Activities</span>
|
||
</a>
|
||
<div class="expand_button">Expand<span class="expand_lines"></span></div>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-1">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/activities/be-a-scientist" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1692">Be a Scientist</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-1">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/activities/coloring" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1697">Coloring</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-1">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/activities/connect-the-dots" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/1857">Connect the Dots</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
<ul class="subpages menu-level-1">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/activities/science-experiments" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/22">Science Experiments</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="menu-item menu-lessons menu-level-0">
|
||
<ul class="nav-lessons">
|
||
<li>
|
||
<a href="/lessons" class="nav-lessons-a" data-drupal-link-system-path="node/5"> <div class="icon" id="lessons">
|
||
<img alt="Navigation Icon, Click to Explore" src="/sites/niehs-kids/themes/custom/niehs_kids/web-resources/images/icon-nav-lessons.svg" width="50" height="50">
|
||
</div>
|
||
<span class="nav-roll-forced">Lessons</span>
|
||
</a>
|
||
</li>
|
||
</ul>
|
||
</div>
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
</nav>
|
||
</div>
|
||
|
||
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="kids-body-wrapper layout-container">
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
|
||
<main role="main">
|
||
|
||
<div data-drupal-messages-fallback class="hidden"></div>
|
||
<section class="kids-page-heading kids-topics-heading">
|
||
<div class="kids-heading">
|
||
<h1 class="kids-heading-title" id="main-content">NIEHS's 'Worm Wigwams' Welcome Wiggly Waste Watchers</h1>
|
||
</div>
|
||
</section>
|
||
<div class="primary-section left node node--type-page node--view-mode-full breadcrumb-block" style="margin-top: 1rem;">
|
||
|
||
<div class="kids-breadcrumbs">
|
||
<div class="kids-breadcrumbs__item-holder">
|
||
<a class="kids-breadcrumbs__item c--ancestor" href="/">
|
||
Kids Homepage
|
||
</a>
|
||
<div class="kids-breadcrumbs__arrow"></div>
|
||
</div>
|
||
<div class="kids-breadcrumbs__item-holder">
|
||
<div class="kids-breadcrumbs__arrow c--inset"></div>
|
||
<a class="kids-breadcrumbs__item c--parent" href="/topics">
|
||
Topics
|
||
</a>
|
||
<div class="kids-breadcrumbs__arrow"></div>
|
||
</div>
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<h3>Vermicomposting story from the March 25, 1997 <em>NIH Record</em></h3>
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<p>Composting is often considered a throwback technology, but the NIEHS environmental awareness advisory committee has taken it on a technological ride into the 21st century by installing North Carolina's first two "Worm Wigwams"—state-of-the-art composting bins that use vermi-technology to turn organic waste into usable mulch in a fraction of the time it normally takes.</p>
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<p>What is vermi-technology all about? Simply put, it's about worms. By maintaining suitable temperatures in even the coldest winter months, the Worm Wigwam—with its insulated outside walls and thermostatically controlled electric heater—allows vegetable waste processing red worms to thrive. In return for the comfy home, the red worms process large amounts of organic material, consuming, digesting and passing almost any decaying organic matter including food waste, leaves and grass, shredded paper or cardboard waste, and chopped straw or hay. The worms' castings are the "vermicompost," which is like a rich potting soil but is superior to conventional compost in nutrient levels and water-holding capacity.</p>
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<p><em>Dick Sloane presents former NIEHS Director Dr. Kenneth Olden with a small bag of vermicompost to celebrate the early success of the institute's worm composting project. John Schelp and Laurie Johnson, previous Co-chairs of the Environmental Awareness Advisory Committee, join in the fun. Olden noted that he has been photographed holding many things, but never a bag of worm poop!</em></p>
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<p>The Worm Wigwams cost $375 apiece. Each contains 10 pounds of worms (about 10,000) worth $75, which are working to process 1020 pounds of cafeteria waste plus shredded paper and other organic waste each day. The Worm Wigwam is 3.5 feet tall and 3 feet in diameter. A steel grate separates the processing area where the worms live from the harvest area where the vermicompost falls. A crank on the side of the unit functions like a flour sifter, breaking up the mulch so it can fall through the grate.</p>
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<p><em>A cutaway view shows the inner workings of the Worm Wigwam. Layers of green cafeteria waste and other organic materials are placed on top of a metal grate. Most of the decomposition occurs in the warm core of the pile. The 10,000 worms not only process the waste through digestion, but their constant movement also aerates the organic mass.</em></p>
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<p>Dick Sloane, who spearheaded the effort and set the Worm Wigwams up in early December, said the system offers three benefits. NIEHS reduces its daily waste stream, the compost provides a nutritional mulch for landscaping, and the institute receives a public relations value—people from North Carolina State University in Raleigh and SunShares recycling in Durham have already visited to check out the new composting units.</p>
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