It's bring your worm to work week!

[picunurse]

Ok, I lied a little. In California office workers are being encouraged to compost using worms at work

Always on the cutting edge of all things environmental, California is encouraging public and private-sector employees to bring worms to work so that the creatures can chew up apple cores, sandwich scraps and other lunch leftovers and produce compost…
Supporters of the idea say that once you get over the ick factor, it’s not so bad.

:dubious:
“What’s that… um… smell?”
“Oh, it’s just last week’s lunch. I’m feeding my worms.”
“OooKaaay…”

I guess it would keep nosey folks from snooping in your stuff…

[An_Arky]

“once you get over the ick factor”??? Ick is icky. Plus, why do they have to do it inside? Can’t they put the compost bins outside?

I think the idea of using worms to compost is fine, but if you consider the human factors (people, being the thoughtless creatures they are, would put in things that would kill the worms or stuff worms can’t eat, like bologna sandwiches), it sounds like a not-terribly-well-thought-out idea. Either that or the article is leaving out huge chunks of information by which reasonable humans can draw conclusions.