On Mon, 31 Mar 2003 07:17:59 +0000, Nick Maclaren wrote:

| I can't find this web site at all! However, if you have some further info
| I would be interested. It always annoys me to have to put waste meat
| scraps and bones in the bin when they are highly bidegradable. (Although

Why not? I have composted them for 25 years with no problems.
Others have done so for longer.

Well, I can't put in chicken or other light bones in case the cats get at
it. But you raise an interesting point in one of your other responses to
this thread. So many people on URG have said don't put meat or bones on
the heap because it attracts rats - you're saying that it doesn't make any
difference.

In my household, all vegetable based scraps - cooked and uncooked go on my
(cold heap, sarah-rigged wooden containers, open topped) compost heap, as do all
prunings and garden waste. All meat bones and inedible bits (skin, gristle
etc.) are binned. All the meat is eaten.

I'm willing to have a go by putting in big bones, gristle and skin - what
sort of decomposition rate should I expect based on the fact I run a cold
heap? And possibly I would need to look at putting some sort of lid on the
heap perhaps... Mind you given that the compost bins are starting to need
rebuilding (PLEASE wait to Autumn!) that could be interesting!

Sarah