I love composting. It not only decreases one's waste stream, when done right, composting improves the soil.

Unfortunately, for many centuries, the composting community held the idea tha European earthworms were the best composters.

Colonists brought European earthworms to ecosystems around the world. The hungry creatures wrought havoc on local ecosystems.

I live in the United States. There were no earthworms where I lived. There were native compoosters that created a loam that was richer than that created by earthworms.

The earthworms wraught havoc in local ecosystems and caused many species to go extinct.

Unfortunately, many people start the composting experiment by ordering European earthworms online.

I think that the best way to start composting is to hike around native ecosystems. IF you find soil that you like, you might scoop some of it into a bucket and use that to start the compost system.

I googled "earthworms in brazil." It returned numerous articles on the problems caused by invasive earthworms such as this article

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0929139322003092

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