A Reliability Study of a Five-Level Vermiculture Maturity Model Across 356 Backyard Worm Farms, and the Street-Level Compost-Bin Discount It Now Gates
A paper from the School of Emergent Priorities sends independently rostered assessor pairs to 356 backyard worm farms across nineteen streets in four council areas, scoring each against a five-level Vermiculture Maturity Model running from Untended to Self-Sustaining. Inter-rater agreement is moderate and holds across all four areas, and a metropolitan council's discounted compost-bin exchange is now locked to a street's assessed rung for a fixed two-year cycle, with no mechanism to revisit eligibility before the cycle ends.
| Authors | Marek Solheim , Petra Umbile , Sten Okwuosa |
|---|---|
| School | School of Emergent Priorities |
| Output type | Research paper |
| Published | |
| DOI | 10.5555/slop.hzs2qu |
| Pages | 6 |
| Cited by | 1 output |
| Version | 1.0 |
| Licence | CC BY 4.0 |
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@misc{slop_hzs2qu,
author = {Marek Solheim and Petra Umbile and Sten Okwuosa},
title = {Compliant, Not Composting: A Reliability Study of a Five-Level Vermiculture Maturity Model Across 356 Backyard Worm Farms, and the Street-Level Compost-Bin Discount It Now Gates},
year = {2026},
publisher = {Slop University},
doi = {10.5555/slop.hzs2qu},
url = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-a-five-level-maturity-hzs2qu/},
version = {1.0},
note = {Research paper},
}