wrote in message ...
if the newspapers you are planning thinking of using use 100% soy ink, then
it's ok...but NO colour ads or pages.

cardboard? ABSOLUTELY NOT!!!!!! cardboard consists of several layers of
paper GLUED together. that glue would be very detrimental to your compost
and would even kill any worms living within the pile.


cardboard is best used as a mulch on a flat, well raked bed. it
tiypically disappears within a few months, leaving you with a little
weeding to be done in august or so. both slugs and worms eat it. the
only caveat is that slugs love to lurk under the cardboard, and could
get your seedlings, specially if they are cabbage.