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BUGFEST 2017 Caroline



Overall, I really enjoyed this booth and what it taught me. I now feel more confident in possibly beginning a compost bin for my house and how to manage it once I create it. I believe that the new knowledge will allow me to further understand my environmental impact and how to alter it for the better. I volunteered at the 2017 BugFest on Saturday September 16. I helped with the compost, or vermicompost booth known as 'the worm ate my garbage'. I helped teach children and adults how they can create and implement a vermicompost for their home. This included what to put into the compost as well as what to avoid when creating one. I was also able to help the children become more comfortable with the worms by allowing them to hold and play with them. Vermicompost is one of many ways to reduce your amount of waste as helps to lower the massive amounts of waste in America. We learned in APES how detrimental this can be to society and what global impacts it can have such as global warming. Composting enables people to begin to reduce their waste in attempt to lower America's environmental impact.