Here’s an interesting article about vermicomposting at the Charlotte airport. Great timing to move forward with an initiative like this with the Democratic National Conventional hosted in Charlotte in later this year. Hopefully all the legislators and other people flying in for the event will read about the city’s efforts and try to implement them in their own cities.
“While it seems logical that many restaurants have already begun to reap the benefits of installing onsite worm composting operations, airports may not be the first place people would think of to have such systems in place. The Charlotte Douglas International Airport will change that fact when they open a $1.1 million recycling center in February 2012, to include a vermicomposting system that will use 300 pounds of worms to chow down on up to two tons of airport patron waste per day.” Read more…
