Thread: Recycle builders bag for compost container?
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Old 23-04-2004, 04:08 PM
Nick Maclaren
 
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Default Recycle builders bag for compost container?

In article , (dmc) writes:
| In article , Huge wrote:
| (dmc) writes:
|
| Had a couple full of gravel at the bottom of the garden for a few years.
| Both have gone very brittle - the one I attempted to empty and move just
| crumbled.
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| That's not biodegrading. The UV in the sunlight has destroyed them.
|
| Hmm. Good point. They had turned to dust though. Nasty poisonous dust
| maybe

No. Polythene and polypropylene break down into harmless chemicals,
and I believe that the other ingredients aren't particularly toxic
or permanent.

| What actually has to happen to something in order for it to have "biodegraded"?
| Break down into component chemicals?

To have broken down as result of biological action.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.
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