Eco-Hero or Menace?

Digging into red wigglers at the MRF

by Margaret A. Leary

posted 8/26/2011

On a sunny Saturday last winter, my friend Roberta and I headed out to the city's Materials Recovery Facility (MRF) on Platt for a workshop on using earthworms to turn household garbage into garden compost. The setting was perfect: a classroom that overlooked the mostly automated process of recycling the city's paper, glass, plastic, and metal trash.

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