The Recyclers

EARTH WORM

Created By,

Ramakrishnan & GopikaX Std Students,S.M.R.V.H.S.S.,

Vadasery,Nagercoil

Kanyakumary District-629001

• The waste gathered in our school created pollution and it was not disposed properly. Bad odors came out of noon meal wastes. Day to day it caused many problems to our school surroundings. We felt this problem should be solved in a good manner.

Step 1: Feel

• To find the solution for this problem , we desided to visit some waste management areas.

• We had visited Vivekananda Kendra to observe the Vermiculture process.

• We selected a limited students to go and observe the waste management process.

• The students are advised to take a Video camera with them to record the process of vermiculture .

Going out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nk7Z0P_qtrU

Click here to watch the videos

http://www.youtube.com/user/Mrskohilabalamurugan#p/u/6/iy-BndXmTJo

•To keep clean our school campus by converting the degradable wastes into manure.•To prepare Vermicomposed manure at our home.•To find innovative ideas to multiply the worms in large scale.•To grow herbal garden in our school and to give awareness on natural products.

•To supply the manure to the needy farmers.•To give global awareness on vermiculture.

Purpose

• We discussed with our mentor teacher Mrs. M.Kohila.B.T.Asst. Many ideas came out such as:

• Separate degradable waste and non degradable waste.

• Non degradable wastes should be disposed properly.

• Prepare Vermicompost in our school.

Step 2: Imagine

•Vermicompost is an eco friendly natural fertilizer• It does not have any adverse effect on soil, plant and environment.•It improves water retention capacity of soil because of its high organic matter content.• It promotes better root growth and nutrient absorption.• Earthworm castings in the home garden often contain 5 to 11 times more nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium as the surrounding soil.•Promoting home composting as a solution to reduce global warming caused by methane by degradable waste in landfills.•We could solve our Waste disposing problem in an useful manner.

Advantages of Vermicomposting

Why Vermicompost?

Selection of place for vermiculture

Vermitech-Implementation

Dig the pit

Our activities………

Step 3: Do

Spread the coconut fiber

Please click here to watch the videos.

Pour the cow dung water on the coconut

fibers.

Our Activities…….

http://www.youtube.com/user/Mrskohilabalamurugan#p/u/7/LySi5eYcQ1w

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlW6dTbe_5I

Fill the pit with agro waste ,cow dung, and

fallen leaves from trees

Leave it for two weeks.sprinkle water regularly.

Waste from Noon meal centre is put into the pit.

Our Activities…….

After two weeks earth worm was applied on the bedding

After three weeks We can observe the Vermicomposed manure at the top of the pit. (The appearance of black granular crumbly powder on top of vermibeds indicate harvest stage of the compost. )

Our Activities…….

•Watering is stopped for at least 5 days at this stage. •The earthworms go down and the compost is collected from the top.•Separate the baby worms and worm cocoons from it by sieving method.

Now the manure is ready to use.

Our Activities…….

APPRECIATION FOR OUR PROJECT

Mr.K.Subramonian,HeadMaster,

S.M.R.V.H.S.S.Vadasery,

Nagercoil-629001

Please visit on the URL to watch the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4oNt4ttohU VISIT THIS URL

Herbal garden at school

Vermicomposed manure is used for herbal garden project

Vermi composed manure is applied for herbal plants in our school.

Create awareness on Vermiculture to the whole students in the class

Other Students got excited about it and ready to prepare Vermicomposed manure at their home

Mentor’s guidance

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTLmfWGtS3U

Student Gopika participated in an exhibition to give awareness on Vermiculture to other school students.

Venue:Amala Convent,ThackalayKanyakumary District

•This project can be started from any available fund.

•Raw materials available easily and locally in abundance.

•Successful Organic Farming and no Marketing problem.

•No Chance of failure.

•No requirement of electricity .

•Additional Income form cow dung, agro waste and wastes available .

Economics of Vermiculture

Project is published in other web sites to create awareness on Vermiculture

www.blogspot.com

Impact of the projectSurvey taken before Implementation of the project

No. of PositiveResponses(yes)

No. of Negative Responses(No)

Sl.No Questionnaire

No. of People

Response (yes)

No. of People

Response(No)

1 We remove all garbage every day from our home

36 14

2 We never throw the garbage in our streets.

13 37

3 We separate the degradable and non – degradable garbage

2 48

4 We convert the degradable wastes into manure

2 48

5 We grow home garden 7 43Total No of responses 60 190

Sl.No Questionnaire

No. of People

Response (yes)

No. of People

Response(No)

1 We remove all garbage every day from our home

48 2

2 We never throw the garbage in our streets.

47 3

3 We separate the degradable and non – degradable garbage

35 15

4 We convert the degradable wastes into manure

27 23

5 We grow home garden 29 21

Total No of responses 186 64

No. of PeopleResponses (yes)

No. of People Responses(No)

Survey taken after Implementation of the project

Our future plans

• To convert all degradable wastes into manure for better environment.• To create awareness on vermiculture to Self Help Groups and guide them to earn money from wastes.• To fertile the land to increase yielding. • Create a Global awareness on Vermiculture.

From ,home to streetstreet to villageVillage to townTown to DistrictDistrict to stateState to CountryCountry to whole world

We invite you all please join with us to keep the earth clean……..

Expectation of our project

How we were ‘Changed’

• We found a solution on Waste Management.• We learnt the value of collaboration and

sharing .• And we learnt that Wastes are misplaced

resources and if we placed it in a correct place, it would become resource.

• We have changed our attitudes on wastes and changed other’s attitudes too.

Impact of the project

Thank you