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Composting Tea Bags
On 26 Jun 2003 13:34:04 GMT, Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article oprrdbpyh6wxhha1@localhost, Tim writes: | | In a word, "crap". The 1999 order makes composting of any animal | products illegal - the correct answer to the question is "yes". The | correct question to which the answer is "no" is "Will I need ...". | | It says in the link this refers to the 2001 amendment of the 1999 order, so | I'm sure it's in effect now. The 2001 amendment does not include the exclusions that it refers to, but is a tightening of the 1999 order to ban the feeding of catering waste to pigs and pultry (which was permitted by the 1999 order). I really don't see anywhwere in the 1999 order that says or even implies composting. It's clear to me that it only applies to animal waste products that are *intended* to be fed to animals (and their definition of animals excludes humans). I suppose you could stretch the point (quite a lot) and say that anything grown on compost could be eaten by animals... How do you interpret it as applying to composting? The article said: Tamzin Phillips said: "It presents us with some interesting challenges. We cannot compost the leaves off the cauliflowers, the teabags or the coffee grounds." I don't see how the National Trust got to that conclusion at all. Feeding it to animals, as swill or whatever, sure, that's clear. But composting? And what applies to the NT catering doesn't apply to private homes as the NT is a commercial business. | Hang on, what are we talking about here? I was looking for info about how | far the compost heap should be placed, and to the part of the quote that | suggested we might need a licence. My comment "I can find no hints at all | that this might be true....." was not meant to apply to the defra link, but | the link from the article that I thought I'd put in my post but obviously | didn't....oops. Ah. Sorry. Regards, Nick Maclaren. No, my cock-up. Tim. |
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