


The worm castings are pushing the plants up faster and making them bigger.ĭr. Joe Willis feeds plants with various fertilizers, including Szaky's liquified worm castings, as worm poop is more delicately called. You breed and you eat, and that's what you do.ĭOUGLAS: This greenhouse in Trenton, New Jersey is full of experiments testing his fertilizer against others. TOM SZAKY (Founder CEO, TerraCycle Incorporated): So we have a pile of worms and a pile of garbage, and they're eating the garbage, making worm poop. The giant of the fertilizer industry is suing a small start-up company that sells worm droppings in old soda bottles.ĭIANNA DOUGLAS: Tom Szaky, the 25-year-old founder and CEO of TerraCycle, picks up a couple of worms from a blue plastic tub. And as the summer gardening season winds down, we have a story about a dispute within the garden fertilizer business.
