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In Amsterdam , the Netherlands , many of its residents don ’ t separate their organic waste . Many homes don ’ t have a garden or a balcony , making it difficult to choose to compost at home . The Worm Hotels of Le Compostier are offering a stylish , odorless , practical & fun solution .
After the successful pilots of the last two years in the city of Amsterdam now more Dutch cities are asking Le Compostier to help design solutions for Urban Composting . By designing customized urban composting systems Le Compostier helps cities to reduce waste & add value to their local economies by using urban resources like organic waste .
Integrated vermicomposting solutions
Together with his colleague Chris Mueller ( Full Harvest ), Rowin Snijder is now focusing on designing integrated vermicompost solutions where growing plants , recreation & play go hand-in-hand with urban vermicomposting . “ Experimenting with urban vermicomposting & urban food production is super exciting ! For example we are now trying to grow edible mushrooms in combination with Strawberries on one of the Community Composters currently placed on the streets of Amsterdam .
Compost coop
For the past few months Chris & Rowin have been working together on site at a local mushroom producer , to compost the used mushroom substrate . “ We are currently building a big Continuous Flow System to turn the composted mushroom substrate together with urban found additives into a rich urban vermicompost that we would like to offer to grow food in the city . We have started a compost cooperation named StadsOogst ( City Harvest ) to join local compost producers and make the compost available in the city .“
Community Compost School
In collaboration with Aveen Colgan , founder of the Green Living Lab , Le Composier developed an educational program named the Community Compost School . The participants learned how to start their own community composting project and how to create value for their own neighbourhoods using urban waste . Read more .
First Class Worm Hotel
On a recent visit to Greece Rowin designed a worm hotel for the Athens climate , in collaboration with Pumpkin & Bamboo by Coco- Mat . Aveen Colgan from the Green Living Lab had the idea to build the first Worm Hotel for Athens and Coco-mat owner Paul Efmorfidis loved the idea so much that he made a place for the Worm Hotel at their exhibition at the hotel fair of Athens .
This new warm-weather worm hotel has been made using waste materials from Coco-Mat mattresses , Pumpkin & Bamboo products . It ’ s design ensures that its resident worms enjoy optimum comfort all year round , much like staying in a beautiful Coco-mat hotel !
Photographs info : 1 . Combining food production with
Vermicomposting
2 . Students of the Community Compost School at the Green Living Lab
3 . Hand made sign by my beloved friend Carol Poye
4 . Street corner Composter by Le Compostier
5 . Worm Hotel by Le Compostier at
Nafsika Coco-mat hotel 6 . Compost Cooperation 7 . Community Composter at Community Garden Zeeburgertuin
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