anton wrote:
"Nick Maclaren" wrote in message
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In article ,
Mike Lyle wrote:


[can't see Mike's post, so replying through yours, Nick]


Anton, you're just panicking.

?? No panic here. I'll continue with my illegal
composting methods.

But we've seen that they _aren't_ illegal. Unless you mean you're not
using only domestic waste.

Time to grow up.

Too late for that.

Well, come to that, me too!

I'm just setting the record straight on what the
dopey legislation is, as a large number of people find it hard to
believe.

They found a fault in
the original legislation, and they're repairing it.

If that were the full statement of the facts, then I would have no
problem. However, yours is not an accurate short description of
what
they have done. A better summary is:

They found a fault in the original legislation, propagandised and
bullshitted to try to conceal this, and they have still not
repaired
it.

I just don't get the last bit: the paragraph you quoted (and one of
us seems to have snipped) quite clearly says it's OK on the domestic
scale.

You're the man
I'd go to first for advice about fruit trees;

thank you, but I'm only an enthusiastic amateur. Brogdale and the
RHS have some real fruit experts.

but when it comes to
textual analysis, well, if you don't mind, I'll do
it myself.

Well textually analyse away, old sport, and if you can come up with
a
statement of mine that doesn't match the facts then say so and be
prepared to defend your assertion.

I think I did: see above.

[...]
In this case, I don't think that the intent ever was to produce
legislation to ensure safe composting, so much as to adhere to EU
attempts to do that while minimising the amount of effect the new
legislation would have. They got that wrong, which is why it
needs
amending to reduce the political impact. I wish that I were
wrong.

Six and two threes here. The same could be presented in a favourable
light: they might say "In complying fully with the EU rules, we want
to minimise the inconvenience to business and the public. We find
that, as often with new legislation, something important got left
out, and we're trying to make the regulations more practical. This is
very difficult."

I personally think that legislation has no place in domestic
composting. The place of government is to /encourage/ suitable
composting methods & choice of materials.

Nobody in his right mind could disagree.

Commercial composting/ waste management is a different story, in
that
legislation is appropriate- but even this is producing a number of
farcical overspends as councils attempt to comply with
half-thought-out directives

I've already said there's a bass-ackwards approach to animal health
implicit in the whole thing: but it doesn't seem to be the civil
servants who are to blame for that.

Mike.