In article ,
Stewart Robert Hinsley writes:
| In article ,
| "Cat(h)" writes:
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| | I have a few bottles of really, really bad wine in the house, gifts
| | from the uninformed, and nasty prizes from pub quizzes.
| | Then, suddenly, I
| | thought: "what about pouring it onto the compost heap?"
| | Is there any reason why I shouldn't?
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| No. There are plenty of bacteria that will break it down.
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| While I'm sure that bacteria will break it down, what about the issue of
| interim toxicity with regards to the invertebrate fauna of the heap?

Minor, unless you put industrial amounts of alcohol on the heap.
Natural concentrations of up to 5% are common, and local ones or
more aren't rare. Anyway, bacteria will break down their corpses
fast enough, and that's the way things turn into humus anyway ....


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.