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| National Waste Management Awarded to 'our' Janet Edghill
| Vermicomposting recognised nationally

Janet Edghill, a student of Murdoch University and member of the 'etc vermi group' is completing a project on the waste audit and the economic and environmental aspects of vermiculture at St. John of God Hospital. Janet is also a student of the corner-stone Environmental Science unit N210: Environmental technology for Sustainable Development.

Janet has just won the National Waste Management Competition. Her prize? A trip to Melbourne to present the paper at the International Solid Waste Management Conference in the second week of November. The paper deals with the potential benefits and limitations associated with integrated waste management in Australia.

Janet and the other members of the 'etc vermi group' are working under the supervision of Senior Research Dr Jaya Nair. Pictured above are Janet Edghill, bottom left with Dr Jaya Nair, bottom right and top L-R Julia Klein, Ria Kristiana & Katherine Taylor. Also part of the 'vermi-team' is Otti Bajsa pictured below with Industry Partner barefott Engineering's Vermi-composting toilets. Otti has recently completed her honours project, supervisied by Dr Jaya Nair, on vermicomposting human waste and is about to commence her doctoral studies in a similar area.

| more info:

Visit the Waste Management Association of Australia Website
Read more about the SJOG Vermicomposting Project
Contact Dr Jaya Nair