Vermicomposting in the cold-climate apartment - Paper Composting

This year’s Carry-In-Carry-Out (CICO) project is to vermicompost the paper that arrives in my apartment.

I produce bales of cross-cut shredded paper and would like a food-scraps-free method of reducing this paper.

Paper is now my biggest concern in terms of waste.

Cathy Nesbitt says “add nitrogen”, so I’ve explored web sites and discovered:

http://www.compostguide.com/

This site lists as nitrogen sources:

http://web.extension.uiuc.edu/homecompost/materials.html

This site lists

http://www.cast.ilstu.edu/ksmick/Compost/brochures/quickguide/comppam.html

This site lists

Summary

Of all the nitrogen sources I can find (to Saturday, April 08, 2006) the ones that appear to me to be non-food (in the sense of non-insect/vermin attractors) are:

Of these, the ones I am likely to obtain where I live are:

The one item not listed is human urine, which is, I understand, rich in nitrogen and easy to harvest from a male human.

Status Tuesday, August 22, 2006

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