In article ,
"michael adams" writes:
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| And given that the environmental conditions a teabag could expect
| to encounter in the average compost heap are not dissimilar to the
| envirnment a teabag is designed to withstand under normal
| conditions in a teacup, I stand by that claim.

No, they aren't, as I have repeatedly pointed out. Do please
learn something about biological processes before posting more
nonsense.

| I think you'll find that many tea bags dry out at some stage
| between being removed from the cup and ending up on the compost
| heap. Some people even dry them out, and use them again I believe.

Don't be ridiculous. None of that is likely to cause the
relevant fungi and bacteria to start breaking them down and,
in any case, exponential growth starts off negligibly slowly.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.