Article: WORMS TURN OUR GARBAGE INTO COMPOST.(AT HOME)

Byline: MARTY HAIR - Knight Ridder

Finally, worms are getting their just desserts. Not to mention their bread crusts and coffee grounds.

Once lowly organisms worth no more than a yuck and a squish, worms are now being lauded as hard-working makers of compost, silent amenders of soil. A Clean Plate Club for the world.

If composting is the buzzword for the '90s, worm composting may take off as a way individuals can make a meaningful -- and relatively easy -- environmental contribution right in their own homes.

That's right. Worms. In homes.

Put aside any residual squeamishness, those nasty stereotypes of worms as worthless ...

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