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. The employees are then invited to take the stuff home and use the all-natural fertilizer in their gardens and on their houseplants.

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