Re: Human hair
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- Subject: Re: Human hair
- From: L*
- Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 18:27:27 +0100
Yes, I heard that you can put human hair on a compost heap
and it will rot. Perhaps the hair found in the Egyptian
tomb hadn't rotted because it was too dry an atmosphere.
The only thing that worries me about putting hair in the
compost today is all the chemicals that tends to go on it.
Louise, southern England
>Date: Thu, 14 Oct 1999 02:17:21 -0400
>From: "Marge Talt" <mtalt@clark.net>
>Subject: Re: Human hair
>
>Your question intrigued me, so I did a web search and found
"In mammals,
>hair, horns, nails, claws, hooves, and even skin are all
made up of the
>same material: keratin." There's more about hair on this
page:
>
>http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/jun99/928507693.Bc.r.h
tml
>
>It's organic and will rot in time...I have put clippings
from cutting my
>hair in the compost heap and if I can remember, I'll throw
some outside in
>early spring for the birds to use in making nests. Have
not found human
>hair deters any critters...wish it did...maybe the critters
in my garden
>just don't care.
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