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Compost worms eat compostable materials. Compostable materials tend to include nitrogen rich green materials such as fresh grass clippings. Or they tend to include carbon rich brown materials such as fallen leaves. Sources of both carbon and nitrogen are the dead and decaying bodies of soil food web members.

Compostable materials may include newspapers and papers. But they aren't compostable when they're printed in colors. They also may include kitchen scraps other than dairy products, greasey or oily foods, and meat.

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