ByoEarth Initiative
Type of practice Recycle
Name of practice ByoEarth Initiative
Name of main actor ByoEarth
Type of actor(s) NGO
Location Guatemala
Stage of implementation End-of-life
Year of implementation 2007
What was/is being done? In Latin America, food wasted by consumers is composted as fertilizer for local farms. Maria Rodriguez, an entrepreneur in Guatemala City, has helped women living near city dumps using earthworms to compost waste and sell it as fertilizer under her ByoEarth initiative. On her own farm, she uses pulp from coffee beans as feedstock for worms. Vermicomposting transforms degradable waste that otherwise goes to landfills. With a production plant that contains an estimated population of more than 90 million Californian red worms, ByoEarth plans to expand into Central America over the coming year and start exporting worms to Nicaragua, Costa Rica and El Salvador
Outcomes and impacts Outcomes and impacts available in Spanish: http://www.byoearth.com/?page_id=23
