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Composting Tea Bags
On 26 Jun 2003 14:01:19 GMT, Nick Maclaren wrote:
In article oprrdncalpwxhha1@localhost, Tim writes: | On 26 Jun 2003 13:34:04 GMT, Nick Maclaren wrote: | | 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? By exclusion! If it isn't explicitly permitted, it is forbidden. I beg to differ on that. If it's not explicitly forbidden (or at least strongly implied, which it isn't here) then it's permitted. Funnily enough, part 5 "Restrictions on disposal of animal by-products" raises the question what a normal householder should do with uneaten meat. If you go through regs as to what to do with low-risk meat products (it specifies what to do with high-risk waste), then you'll surely come to the same conclusion as I did. That it must be disposed of as a low-risk by-product, by either feeding it to zoo or kennel animals, sent for research or exported from the country. :-( That's more of a problem than worrying if you can tea bags on your composter. But I have found the reference to the exclusion of catering waste; sorry I missed it. It means that you are right that the 1999 order probably doesn't apply, but the 2001 one does. And, yes, you can say just that - my compost heap is visited by cats, for example. Mmm, true. Got me there. :-( But if you don't put any meat products on (as you probably don't anyway) then that's ok, as there are no animal by-products involved, and therefore not covered by the order. I still don't get the connection between things like tea-bags and broccoli leaves.... | 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. I think that she is deluded. But the only difference I can see between commercial and domestic applies to used cooking oil. Yes I noted that. I wonder why they added it? Tim. |
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