An Experimental Study on Accelerating the Vermicomposting Process by Stocked Green Market Waste

Abstract

The aim of this experimental study is to develop an innovative engineered technique in vegetable market waste management.  Even though many treatment methods were currently adopted in processing the organic green waste (composting, land fill, vermicomposting etc.,) but vermicomposting is highly recommended, since it converts the green waste into enriched nutrient manure with less operational cost.  The problem with the vermicomposting process is, it consumes more time.  And very particular, when it comes to vermicomposting, the waste should be pre-composted for two weeks (depends on the nature of waste) before they fed to worms to avoid the shock load on worms (Ndegwa and Thompson, 1999).  This study concentrates on eliminating the pre-composting process in vermicomposting, by stocking the green waste and feed the stocked waste to vermi at the required time.  This will reduce the time expelled in the process and high percent of volume reduction of waste will be achieved.  The findings from the current study show the high feasibility of using the modified vermicomposting process because of the following reasons; (i) high volume reduction of waste in short duration. (ii) The stocked waste can be utilized at any time for vermicomposting (iii) 40% time difference was recorded in the modified vermicomposting process than the conventional one.