Japanese Worm Hired To Gobble Up Chinese Garbage

Worm Farming

See how a half Japanese, half Chinese worm may help with China's garbage problem.

 

Cultivated by the Japanese about three decades ago, this particular type of worm can reproduce a hundredfold each year, according to Lü Zhongliang, manager of Lühuanjingyu, a company in Shunyi district that produces 60,000 tons of worm fertilizer a year.

 

Japanese worm hired to gobble up garbage