Services

For businesses and institutions looking to improve their environmental footprint, we can support and guide you to manage your organic waste onsite, designed to your budget and requirements.

The Urban Worm offers consultancy to design the best systems tailored to individual business needs, installation and guidance for establishing in-house vermicomposting practice, and for those who wish to take a hands-off approach we are able to contract for management, maintenance and harvesting of onsite systems.

Consultancy

With more than ten years of experience in waste management using composting worms we are well placed to assist businesses and institutions with their coming obligations under new legislation for food waste disposal. We can advise at executive level on fitting vermiculture into corporate sustainability strategies, deliver engagement events to staff, or design systems for in-house composting.

Installation

The Urban Worm can install 1100l. worm bins at corporate premises, which can manage 3kg of waste per day per bin, reducing volume by up to 90% for organic waste management, reducing carbon and air pollution in your community. One 1100l. bin can produce over 100kg of worm manure per year for horticultural applications. While worm farming is relatively straightforward, some husbandry is involved and training & support can be provided.

Maintenance

As an alternative to training your staff to manage onsite worm farms, The Urban Worm can undertake contracts to maintain the vermicomposters on an ongoing basis. Monthly visits are conducted to health-check each facility, taking corrective measures where the environment needs rebalancing - if too dry, wet, or acidic for example - and providing feedback to kitchens or caretakers responsible for waste management. The service also provides for regular harvesting of compost which the organisation can use or distribute as you see fit.
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Lunch & Learn

A lively & entertaining one-hour introduction to worm farming (or vermiculture) from local and global perspectives, including tips for how to start and manage a worm farm on a personal, group or corporate scale. An ideal engagement event for your staff, there is no limit to the number of delegates apart from your hosting space.

Corporate Strategy Workshop

A workshop for strategists, executive managers and corporate officers exploring vermiculture and corporate sustainability strategies. 1-2 hour consultation with practical guidance on how worm farming can help you deliver on your sustainability strategies and corporate social responsibility targets.

For professional consulting enquiries contact
anna@theurbanworm.co.uk

Case Study - ESS-Compass Worldwide

Since early 2022 The Urban Worm has been working with the hospitality, catering and cleaning company ESS- Compass to bring worms onto military sites across the East Midlands: so far, to Stanford Hall’s Defence Rehabilitation Centre, RAF Waddington and RAF Coningsby. More are planned. Each site is home to four 1100-litre Wheelie Bin Worm Farms, with tens of thousands of worms transforming canteen waste into a nutrient rich fertiliser and compost for use on site. Bins are serviced monthly by The Urban Worm.

Stanford Hall Defence Rehabilitation Centre first year data:

  • 4 tonnes of food waste processed in the first year, equivalent to 26 households
  • 7.6-tonne reduction of CO2 emissions
  • Produced 400kg of nutrient- rich soil
  • Worms thrived in weather conditions from 40°C in summer to -20°C in winter

Anna from the Urban Worm was a main collaborator with Urban Catch on a DEFRA-funded trial testing sustainable nutrient solutions in an urban growing setting. She came all the way up from Nottingham to install two vermicomposters and run an intro workshop. Her enthusiasm is simply infectious, and everyone walked away from the workshop full of love for worms! Her knowledge and experience is clear, but she also presents the information in a way that's very approachable and digestible for all involved.

Anna has also been very kind to help with any follow-up troubleshooting and questions. She's an expert in her field but knows how to make what she's doing interesting and fun for different audiences.

Sinead Fortune, Director, Urban Catch

Usage Study - Urban & Civic PLC

In 2024 Urban & Civic commissioned The Urban Worm to install a worm farm at their community hub on the Middlebeck housing development in Newark, Nottinghamshire. Responding to our 'Vermiculture technology in housing developments' study, the company have placed the double-barrel system close to popular local café Gannets, who supply the worms with a steady supply of food waste. A community event to harvest the compost will be organised by The Urban Worm in the spring. The local school has also installed a worm farm with funding from the local authority as the worms have proven to make a positive impact on community cohesion in a large new housing initiative.

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Vermiculture technology in housing development

Although vermiculture - worm-farming - at scale is uncommon in the UK, at The Urban Worm we believe examples from around the world show us that the practice is a perfect match for the housebuilding sector. Installations in residential settings can be a focal point engendering community cohesion, they can be visually engaging, and critically, a highly effective tool for waste management, with measurable greenhouse gas reductions.

Download our infosheet 'Vermiculture technology in housing development' for more information.

The benefits of worm-farming in communities

  • Lifetime demonstrable greenhouse gas offset
  • Facilitates community cohesion
  • Supports environmental awareness
  • Positive ecological impact
  • Permanent installation easy to manage and sustain
  • Clean waste management produces healthy soil
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For professional consulting enquiries contact
anna@theurbanworm.co.uk

 

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