"Trefor Jones" wrote in message ...
Being a bit on the paranoid side I have started shredding things like old
bank and credit card statements, some of them are printouts from a laser
printer or inkjet. Can these be safely added to the compost heap? It seems a
shame to dump all this lovely fibrous material in the bin.

Trefor

Dont reply to this address. Try my first name at btinternet dot com

Trefor

I have been doing the same for the last 3 months. One of the problems
is that statements and the like are printed on better quality paper
than newsprint. As a result they take longer to start to breakdown.
My statements and credit card vouchers are starting to look stained
now, but it will take some time before they start to look like the
brown crumbly stuff beloved by Alan Titchmarsh and his ilk.