On May 1, 4:04*pm, "brooklyn1" wrote:
"Mycosimian" wrote in message

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On May 1, 2:58 pm, "brooklyn1" wrote:



"Billy" wrote in message

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starrysmile wrote:

Would it be ok to use brown paper grocery bags for mulch as one would
use newspaper?
Thank you.

Don't use the ones with colored logos on them though, as you wouldn't
use colored ads from the newspaper either.

Colored inks are no more toxic than black ink and inks are no longer
toxic,
haven't been for many years. Years ago inks (like paints) contained heavy
metals like lead, cadmium, etc. but no longer. Paper/cardboard with
colored
printing is perfectly safe, computer printer ink is safe too... however
can't vouch for what comes from China.

Toner from laser printers and photocopiers contains polymers to help
it adhere to paper and also some carcinogens. These things are
probably less of a risk to you, in your garden, as to people working
in offices full of old printers.

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Everything in excess is toxic, even water. *Toner used for printing
evaporates from paper almost immediately so it never gets directly from the
printed paper into the soil. *All sorts of schmutz is in the air and we
really can't do much about that getting into soil... and as long as we
breathe so what. *You do realize that soil in of itself is fairly toxic, try
not to eat too much of it at one time. *Truth is our planet is toxic, that's
why eventually we die, and become soil.

I'm not sure if this is good or troubling news. Good because now I am
less paranoid of that stuff building up in my garden. Bad because I'm
surrounded by toner evaporators at work.