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As a company we produce a lot of waste cardboard and a few years ago we came up with a fairly unique way of recycling it that I thought I would share with you.

We built worm beds on the farm, these are basically 30 meter by 2 meter lined troughs that breed worms, which in turn make fish food or fishing bait.

We leave our excess cardboard to get wet, before literally feeding it to the worms, who thrive on eating it and turning it back into natural soil.
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Great idea!

Maybe i'll set one up in the office to replace my shredder

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It's a great idea just as long as I'm NOT the one who has to harvest the worms! :P
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I think that is a fantastic and unique way to get rid of the cardboard boxes

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It's a great idea just as long as I'm NOT the one who has to harvest the worms! :P
Yes in 3.5 years, we have not yet managed to get Cath to go near the worm beds!
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Hi,

It seems to be a fantastic idea. Keep it up.

Cheers .

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Yep there are just not enough worms in the world.

Ideal compost for cardboard box trees.?

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That's really a great idea. Hoping more people will do this...
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What a brilliant idea!
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As a child I loved digging up worms, so you can imagine I love this idea.
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