[Pil-pc-oceania] de-gassing fridges

[petra.kahle at haztech.com.au]

Hi Pennny and All,

don't de-gas fridges without catching the gas propperly, Please,
the old ones have those bad chloro-flouro- carbons that wreck the ozone
layer in them.
That is if the gas is still in them.

cheers, Petra.


> ABC TV Gardening Australia Sat 13/10.
> Josh and the WA school garden.
>  Great idea which I haven't seen before is  to use old fridges as worm
> farms.  If anyone didn't see:
>  remove seals so they are no longer airtight, remove shelves, compressors
> and degas, make a hole in the back of the fridge [which becomes the bottom
> of the worm farm], put a pipe through for the worm wee to run through into
> a
> container below, set on blocks  with back of the fridge as the bottom and
> the door lifts up as the lid.  Then just follow worm farm procedures.  He
> used a deep layer of compost, then the worms, then shredded wet newspaper,
> then food scraps.