Get a wriggle on and start reducing your rubbish!

Fourth anniversaries are traditionally celebrated with gifts of fruit and flowers – but Waste Awareness Wales has taken a different approach to celebrate their fourth anniversary, by presenting wildlife enthusiast and TV star Iolo Williams with a bucket full of fruit waste and ageing flowers…along with a wormery to dispose of them in.

As part of Waste Awareness Wales’s campaign to provide practical solutions to the people of Wales on how to reduce, reuse and recycle their waste, the campaign decided to introduce the wildlife presenter to the benefits of using wormeries – a simple technique that households across the country can adopt to help compost kitchen food waste.

Iolo was presented with his new wriggly friends and shown how to get his wormery started by Anna Richards, manager of Waste Awareness Wales  :

Anna explained:

"Bunches of flowers and gifts of fruit are lovely, but all too often the leftovers are just thrown in the bin, where they head straight to landfill. However by putting the leftovers into a wormery – along with all sorts of other food waste from cooked leftovers to teabags, even card and paper scraps – they can be diverted from landfill and turned into a thick, rich fertiliser for your garden – something Iolo will discover in just a few months!"