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envelopes and compost
I've been happily shredding envelopes together with junk mail and other
superfluous letters and adding them to my compost. I read recently that certain guests of Her Majesty were employed opening undeliverd letters and extracting the little plastic address windows before sending them (the paper envelopes that is, not the plastic bits) to be recycled. Anyone know what the plastic windows are made of and will they compost? Trefor |
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Trefor Jones wrote:
I've been happily shredding envelopes together with junk mail and other superfluous letters and adding them to my compost. I read recently that certain guests of Her Majesty were employed opening undeliverd letters and extracting the little plastic address windows before sending them (the paper envelopes that is, not the plastic bits) to be recycled. Anyone know what the plastic windows are made of and will they compost? Trefor No they will not compost, neither will they recycle. Why shred them? Just throw them in the dustbin. |
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Janet Baraclough wrote:
[...] The other week North Ayrshire council donated every household who wanted, a set of dalek compost bins, a smaller perforated compost tidy for the kitchen, and, what surprised me, a roll of plastic liners for the kitchen holder. They are like rather flimsy supermarket plastic carriers, and printed all over "biodegradeable and compostable"..confirmed in the instruction pack. (Our co-op supermarket bags are also biodegradeable plastic, but I know from verious uses round the garden it must be a slow proces :-). I'm going to bury a couple of the new compost bags in my old compost heap and the garden, to see what happens to them. I really can't think that veg material tied inside them has a good chamce of decomposing at normal rates. Janet I'd ve very interested to know what they're made of Not my field, but these "bioplastics" are based on biological polymers such as cellulose and starch instead of the synthetic "mineral" long-chain molecules. So they will break down by composting processes, but I have no idea of the speeds. My only experience is with cellophane, made, of course, from cellulose (cf rayon): that does seem to compost about as well as paper. Since the bag material must be stronger and I suppose more moisture-resistant than cellophane, though essentially similar, I'd assume it would take longer. I'd also hazard a guess that the plasticizers may have been chosen to evaporate quicker than the usual ones; but that's taking me even further out of my depth. (Where's Franz when we need him? I've emailed, but received no reply.) -- Mike. |
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"Trefor Jones" wrote in message ... I've been happily shredding envelopes together with junk mail and other superfluous letters and adding them to my compost. I read recently that certain guests of Her Majesty were employed opening undeliverd letters and extracting the little plastic address windows before sending them (the paper envelopes that is, not the plastic bits) to be recycled. Anyone know what the plastic windows are made of and will they compost? Trefor No the plastic bits will not compost and they are a damm pain to pick out again I shred all my envelopes etc and put every cardboard box going into my compost .........works a treat |
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Some say yes others, no. I will have to wait until August when I normally
change from one compost compartment to the other. Pity I live in East Renfrewshire who have recently distributed brown bins for garden waste - useful for things that take a long time to compost like moss which grows in great abundance here!- no dalek bins for us! Seems daft giving good compostable stuff to the council for free so that you can buy it back later! Trefor "Trefor Jones" wrote in message ... I've been happily shredding envelopes together with junk mail and other superfluous letters and adding them to my compost. I read recently that certain guests of Her Majesty were employed opening undeliverd letters and extracting the little plastic address windows before sending them (the paper envelopes that is, not the plastic bits) to be recycled. Anyone know what the plastic windows are made of and will they compost? Trefor |
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I don't bother to shred cardboard - sheets of it always have huge numbers of worms under them. I shred paper if required for security reasons but not to aid composting.
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