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Re: Coffee filters in the compost...

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At 05:41 AM 20-06-99 -0400, JLestochi@aol.com wrote:
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?
I have been tossing in the coffee filters with the grounds for some years
now.  They do degrade.
Sometimes they reappear in a dried and withered condition,  but I tear them
up and put them back into the 
most active areas.  If this didn't work, I would have about 2,000 coffee
filters in the pile.  Last year when we moved, I gave
four pickup loads of compost to a friend and moved two here, which meant
pitchforking and shoveling through all of it.
No filters found.  Lots of earthworms and sowbugs.


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