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Old 12-09-2010, 11:08 AM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Tea bags that rot down in compost
On 12/09/2010 11:55, mogga wrote:
On Thu, 9 Sep 2010 16:02:49 +0100, (Peter
James) wrote:

I've just spread the contents of the compost bin on my vegetable garden
and find that the Typhoo tea bags that were put into the compost haven't
rotted down.
Can anyone recommend a tea bag that will rot down in the compost.
Typhoo tea bags seem to leave a fine plastic net behind them.

Peter


Have you written to Typhoo to ask them if they will change the bags?

I does seem odd that in these days of encouraging the use of
biodegradable materials that some manufacturers are going backwards in
this respect.

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