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Composting Tea Bags
"sw" wrote in message ... Ophelia wrote: "sw" wrote in message ... Nick Maclaren wrote: In article , Ophelia wrote: As do I I always feel slightly guilty though because I have an odd memory that some law came into being which would affect our rights to put tea bags into the compost bin. Does anyone else remember that or am I totally mad) Not TOTALLY. It is illegal (yes, a crime) to put disposable nappies into the dustbin, and there was a proposal to make it illegal to put meat scraps into the compost bin, but I don't remember anything explicitly about tea bags. um. The proposal (the Animal By-Products Amendment Order 2001) would have made it illegal to put teabags or any other domestic kitchen waste (including vegetable matter) in the compost bin, but it was decided that home composting should have a derogation. Probably because TPTB couldn't work out how to police it... Thank you Sarah... you have saved my sanity or what is left of it Essjay posted something about the original order; as I understand it, the Amendment allows farmers to put composted waste on fields (the original order prevented this). In September our District Council is to introduce a green bin scheme collecting household compostable waste; they've deliberately avoided the issue by dealing with a firm who have contracted to supply anaerobic digestion facilities. I want a tour of the site when it's up and running! Be interested to hear about it |
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