In article , Nick Maclaren
writes

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.

Nick - you're nit-picking! ;-)

Michael was loose in his assertion, but I for one didn't take him to
mean literally that tea-bag designers put down as their no 1 requirement
that the bags should not decompose in a compost heap. I could easily
have made a similar statement about cork - but all I would have meant is
that the same attributes which make cork a good option for stoppering a
wine bottle make wine corks long-lasting in a compost heap.

--
Kay
"Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river"