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Old 15-09-2007, 05:14 AM posted to aus.gardens
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Default Waste of good mulch!


"Chookie" wrote in message
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Our guinea pigs wee on newspaper, stacks of at least 10 sheets of

newsprint,
which must become quite nitrogenous. ATM I throw this out as I have no

time
for hand-shredding it to make mulch.

What are my options?

Can anyone recommend a heavy-duty paper shredder that would take slabs of

10+
sheets with the odd piggie poo on them? Would a mulcher work?

I've heard you can put newspaper in worm farms, but would the 100

broadsheets
a week be too much for them to munch through? Most of our other scraps go

to
the chooks, so I'm not entirely sure what else the worms would get.

All experiences and suggestions welcome.


We used just add newspaper to the compost heap and then use a garden fork to
punch lots of holes into each bundle (~ 1 local paper thickness interspersed
with vege scraps / lawn clippings etc)... it sped up decomposition and let
the worms get between the layers quite easily.
No where near the volume of paper you are talking about though.

Amanda