Composting Office Paper

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"Once lead is locked up in organic material such as peat, it tends to stay put rather than being washed away by water. "

<<My city does not ... but even if they did, I would not be donating my scrap paper to them. I would still compost it, as I do now. My reading on composting tells me to rely on a hot compost pile and a long aging cycle (at least 1 year) to detoxify darn near anything that might get dumped into the pile. Even diesel fuel, PCB's and DDT vanish (IIRC, PCB's need 2 years aging). >>
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So....your compost heap/unit is self contained, sealed off from the groundwater?
Linda H., composter of paper

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It only takes about 1 month to compost a few inches of paper in a worm composter. I've figured that if the worms are alive and healthy then the compost can't be too bad.

wonderful i'll print this and compost it
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On Wed, 14 Jan 2004 07:22:37 -0800, Tallgrass wrote:
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I am relying on research conducted by others (read http://www.humanmanure.org for details). I don't make a practice of using my compost pile to get rid of excess PCB's but I feel I can rely upon it to dispatch all the contaminants it is likely to see in normal use.
It's not a fetish, it's a garden on the edge of a major city.
Bill

The office paper where I work is great for compost...Almost as much %^#@ as Black Kow Manure....1.0-1.0-1.0.
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groundwater?

Phaedrine Stonebridge wrote:
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Same soy base . . . soy makes wonderful biodegrageable plastics, did you know?
Chris Owens