Our recycled cardboard packaging… that your worms can eat

Here at the farm, no cardboard goes in the bin! For over a year now, we have been recycling all our cardboard boxes with a cardboard shredder, a machine that turns them into packing material to protect your parcels.

How does it work?

The shredder cuts and pleats the cardboard into a kind of soft yet sturdy mat. It makes an excellent replacement for bubble wrap or plastic packing peanuts to hold products in place in shipping boxes. The boxes we receive from our suppliers are thus given a second life.

Packing material that gets recycled… in the wormery

It's eco-friendly, and it's practical: your little Willys can eat this shredded cardboard! In a wormery, brown cardboard is a carbon-rich material, essential for balancing peelings, which are rich in nitrogen and water.

Torn into small pieces, it absorbs excess moisture and lets air in. The worms are happy to settle into it.

Finding the right balance

To understand all about the balance between green and brown materials, read our page on green and brown materials, and for the list of foods, our page on what earthworms eat.

What about you? What do you think? What do you do with the packing material from your parcels?

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