Congrats for this useful website I found when looking for some information about the red worms and the gas emissions they incur. My lil doubts concerns the range of CO2 emissions produced by the red worm in the composting process.
Is there a minimum and maximum measure of CO2 produced by red worms when processing their food?
Is that enough CO2 for my indoor tomatoes to grow up when sequestering CO2?
Could it be in some way beneficent to add the CO2 produces in the vermicomposting process to indoor planting?

Thanks.
A passionate beginner composter

http://www.jgpress.com/archives/_free/001772.html

You said that Dr. Clive Edwards said that .5 percent of Green House Gases come from all composting. Actually, it is .5 percent of 5.2 percent (N02 emissions), which means that composting only contributes .026 percent of GHGs! That is such a small number! Below is the exact quote from the article.

“In the U.S. in 2006, 84 percent of greenhouse gas emissions were carbon dioxide (CO2), 7.8 percent were methane (CH4), and 5.2 percent were nitrous oxide (N2O). Of the N2O emissions, 72 percent came from managing agricultural crop residues, 3.9 percent from animal manures and 0.5 percent from all forms of composting, including vermicomposting (Trends in Greenhouse Gaseous Emissions, 2006).”

5.2 X .005 = .026 %

The original claim was that vermicomposting beds (namely, larger-scale, man-made systems) are significant emitters of N2O gas – significant enough in fact to warrant discouraging this type of composting.
BUT Dr. Edwards illustrated that this conclusion was unfounded.

So yes…time to go feed your worms!
🙂

P.S. You snuck in there just before me Rich
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