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Old 26-06-2003, 02:46 PM
Nick Maclaren
 
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Default Composting Tea Bags


In article oprrdgeij4wxhha1@localhost,
Tim writes:
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| But that was 1999, did they look at the 2001 amendments ? Which to my
| untrained eye looks like the 1999 Order has been changed to only apply to
| catering businesses kitchens and farms etc. What the order says is that any
| waste from COMMERCIAL kitchens can't be composted. So unless you run a
| business from your ktichen you're ok.

No, that is a tightening of the 1999 order.

| But I don't see what the problem is because the 1999 order applies to
| feeding animals waste, not to making compost. I am hard pushed to find any
| connection - unless you keep animals on your land, or you let your compost
| be fed to other animals. The amendment has changed this to make it clearer
| that it applies to commercial waste and/or farm animals. I'm sort of
| discussing this with Nick at the moment.

Read it again. Look at sections 3 and 5, for example. Non-Vegan
kitchen waste is probably an animal product under the order.

| The Order just basically states that people who have animal by-products
| must dispose of them in a number of ways (composting isn't one of them).
| Catering waste is specifically excluded from the definition of animal by-
| products.

I can't find that.


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Nick Maclaren.
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