"Ornata" wrote in message
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Amethyst Deceiver wrote:
Cat(h) wrote:
Rupert (W.Yorkshire) wrote:
"Cat(h)" wrote in message
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Good basic info there, but it suggests that newspaper is best
avoided in compost... why? I use quite a bit of newspaper to dry
up my compost, as well as shredded paper - whatever doesn't go to
the recycling bin goes into the compost, and that works quite well
for me. So. why would an organic website advise against newspaper
in compost heaps?

Cat(h)

I think the theory is that the newsprint is made of chemicals which
may be nasty.

So, it's OK to read them, and eat one's fish and chips in them, but
not to compost them ?;-)

I doubt your fish and chips are actually in the newspaper. They'll be in
plain paper which is over-wrapped in newspaper these days.

I thought newspapers nowadays were printed with soya-based ink. I
compost mine.

If the newspaper in question is the Daily Mail, the compost bin is the
appropriate place for it. I dunno about poisonous or nasty chemicals, but
whenever I've read it I've felt a horrible sickening feeling and an urge to
scrub myself clean, but that's the comments in it not the paper.

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