On Friday, ESS took delivery of something totally unique to Brompton Barracks, and possibly the first on any UK military site… a wormery!
The wormery, approx. 8ft x 3ft x 3ft was delivered to the rear of the combined mess by a company called ‘Worms at Work’. It is part of the ESS strategy to reduce its carbon footprint and become more sustainable with the way it manages the services it provides on site.
Luke Kemp, ESS General Manager for the site, has been the driving force behind this green approach, working with his partners in Holdfast and the Authority to make the changes come to reality.
The worms will process food waste from the Combined Mess, reducing the need to fill bins, saving the time which refuse lorries are on site and ultimately reducing waste to landfill and carbon footprint.
With the worms consuming as much as 50% of their body weight in food a day, (multiply that by 30,000 worms!), a considerable amount of food waste will be turned into nutrient enriched compost. Compost which will be perfect to use on the next ESS project, the garden/allotment area which will be created in the moat running behind HQ RSME.
