Dunkin' Donuts hires 80 pounds of worms to lead recycling effort

In October, Dunkin' Donuts launched its first eco-friendly, LEED-certified restaurant in St. Petersburg, Fla. While that isn't too uncommon (even the raunchy Carl's Jr. is getting in on the green act), what is unusual is what lives behind the restaurant: a giant mound of horrifying, writhing, trash-eating red earthworms!
  The worms, some 80 pounds in all, spend their days in a container out back that looks like it might be used for fuel or trash. Workers at the restaurant throw trash, like coffee grounds and filters, into the squirming mass of soft-bodied invertebrates, which then create "worm castings" and "worm tea" (the excretions of the worm after it eats the garbage) that drains to the bottom of the container. No, Dunkin' will not be serving the worm tea anytime soon; it's being used as a fertilizer.
  My one thought is, after all that coffee, those must be some wired-ass worms.

—Posted by Kenneth Hein