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Re: Coffee filters in the compost...

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Compost them, I do.

Use the unbleached, or peroxide bleached ones, if you are concerned about
the small amounts of dioxins that might be in chlorine bleached paper.

(After all, ya drink the coffee, eh? :-)

Frank---has faith in the microherd, plus they consistently eat up his coffee
filters, year in, and year out....

-----Original Message-----
From: JLestochi@aol.com <JLestochi@aol.com>
To: sqft@listbot.com <sqft@listbot.com>
Date: Sunday, June 20, 1999 5:42 AM
Subject: Coffee filters in the compost...


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>Okay, so I've got this great compost pile out back I've been working for
the
>past 3 years.  Up until this year I've only composted grass clippings and
>yard wastes.  This year I got hooked on gardening and have begun composting
>appropriate kitchen scraps as well...  including coffee grounds.  My wife
has
>been more than cooperative in this venture, but we both make sour faces
when
>scraping the grounds out of the coffee filter.  Or else we try to shake
them
>out and wind up with speckled skin and clothes.  Then it dawns on me that
>filter paper's gotta degrade *at least* as fast as some of the other stuff
I
>throw in there.  Right????  Is there any harm?
>
>What do the rest of you do?
>--------------------------------------------------
>Joe <-- Inherited love of gardening from Dad, Pappy and Grandpap.  Happy
>Father's day!
>Langhorne, PA
>Zone 6b, I think
>p.s. - Many thanks to all of you who offered advice for my last post, "Ants
>on my Big Boys".
>--------------------------------------------------
>
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