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Thursday, June 26, 2008

Day 177 - Thursday 6/26/08

Today's Haul:

  • 1 plastic edamame bag - recycle
  • 2 plastic cups PS 6 - recycle
  • 3 pieces scrap paper - worms
  • 1 rubber glove - repurpose

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Day 176 - Wednesday 6/25/08

Today's Haul:

  • 1 tea bag - worms
  • 2 staples from tea bag - garbage
  • 1 tea bag packaging w 3 chewed pieces of gum - garbage
  • 1 set of film sides - recycle/worms
  • 1 staple from film sides - garbage
  • 1 muffin paper wrap - worms
  • 1 plasticaoted mailer - garbage
  • 2 pieces scrap paper - recycle
  • 1 plastic wrapping from cut flowers - recycle
  • 1 local newspaper - wroms/recycle
  • 1 glass beer bottle w/top - recycle
  • 1 plastic packaging from tofu dogs - recycle

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Tuesday, June 24, 2008

The Great Escape

A few weeks back (I know, I'm way behind on things as usual) I harvested the castings out of the composter.  The worms seemed to have been pretty busy and things were looking ready.  I cleaned out most of two bins and put half a bin worth of castings back in the new tray with the worms that I separated out.


Well, I came down the next morning and found this, the great worm escape of 08.  The white stuff in the picture is paper shreds but the rest are (unfortunately) dried up worms that headed out of the bin.  They were everywhere.  I found a few live ones and popped them back in but I'm afraid many many did not make it.

I had plenty of castings in there and plenty of paper so I know they weren't looking for food, so near as I can tell, it was water that they were after, which is weird cause things were fairly moist at the time.  Worms need to be wet in order to breathe so I'm afraid the intrepid few/many set off in search of a little something to wet their whistles. I actually felt quite badly as they had been working so hard for me and here I was dropping the ball on them.

So, point taken, when harvesting form now on, add plenty of water and make sure they have enough to keep them comfortable.

Just goes to show you that it doesn't always go well with things, but if you keep learning, hopefully it'll head that direction in the long run.

Dave

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Day 175 - Tuesday 6/24/08

Today's Haul:

  • 1 cardboard pasta box - recycle
  • 1 glass sauce jar w/top - recycle
  • 4 videotape wrappers - recycle
  • 4 video tape plastic packages - recycle
  • 4 video tape cardboard backings - recycle
  • 3 sucking candy wrappers - garbage
  • 1 plastic soda bottle - recycle
  • 1 laptop battery - e-waste/recycle

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Monday, June 23, 2008

Week 24 Pics





Blogger is being highly tempermental tonight so no pic of the garbage tonight.  Tis a shame as I have a box for it now.  Next week.

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Day 174 - Monday 6/23/08

Today's Haul:

  • 1 plastic juice jug w/top- recycle
  • 1 plastic tofu tub - recycle
  • 1 gum packet w two chewed pieces gum in it - garbage
  • 1 cardboard wrapper from gum packet - recycle
  • 1 cardboard tofurkey dogs wrapper - recycle
  • 1 cardboard toilet paper roll - worms
  • 1 tea bag cover - garbage
  • 1 tea bag - worms

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Day 173 - Sunday 6/22/08

Today's Haul:

  • 32 ozs paper/receipts/bills - recycle/worms

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