“There are appliances that reduce waste by 90% wet separating water from the remaining 10% is solid and the dried powder was immediately a very good fertilizer for plants.”
.-= Beth Terry´s last blog ..Jackson Browne: Defiant About Bottled Water =-.

(from my blog)

My wormery was made using a standard kitchen bin, with a sliding lid. I drilled holes in two rows around the top, 4inches and 6inches down from the top, about an inch apart. At the bottom, about 4inched from the base, I drilled a single row of holes. They are about the thickness of a pencil.

At the base in the middle of the bin, I drilled a hole the size of a wine cork which is left open to the juice can flow out into a receptacle underneath it – so you must place the bin on bricks to raise it off the ground.

Inside I poured gravel to the depth of 2inches, then covered with some plastic which is pierced or ripped. This discourages the worms from going into the gravel and fall out the bottom, but allows the liquid to seep through. Then I placed a thick layer of wet newspaper strips. (not soaking wet, but very damp) – this is where the worms will snuggle and sleep :)

Then it's time to get worms. I have a compost heap outside, so I dug in there and found plenty of Tiger worms – which are special compost worms that are thin, red and have stripes, or ribs around their bodies when stretched out. I not only picked the worms, I gathered the compost as well. Into the bin this goes.

The bin was quite full at this point, and I thought by the time I empty the food scraps in there – it will be full! But I haven't emptied the compost in the two weeks so they must be digesting the food pretty fast because there's still room for loads more compost – which raw folks produce plenty of :)

What you can put in there is – any veg and fruit scraps – apart from Citrus fruit.

Egg shells need to be crushed before putting it in.
No dairy, meat, cheese – nothing from animals

Use used buckets and they won’t be virgin plastic. Use a pile turner and aerator ($20.00) if you can’t turn by hand.
It takes about 3 months to get good soil from scratch. Throw in old already composted stuff to go faster.

Before getting worms (e.g. red wigglers), one should consider the local ecology where you live. Worms are already in many urban environments, but they are not native and can be very destructive in some places. And they WILL get out. :-)