Re: Human hair
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- Subject: Re: Human hair
- From: M* T*
- Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 03:03:00 -0400
Well, mine doesn't get anything but shampoo / conditioner and I figure a
few rains ought to take care of that. I'm not sure about hair that has
been bleached and colored, but the composting process (if your heap heats
up at all) tends to level things out pretty well, plus unless you clean out
a few hair salons, the quantity would be fairly minuscule in the overall
heap, I should think.
I was thinking that about the mummy hair, myself. The extreme dryness of
Egyptian tombs preserves a lot of things that the moist warmth of a compost
heap would rot pretty quickly.
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
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> From: Louise <louise@the-english-family.freeserve.co.uk>
> Date: Thursday, October 14, 1999 1:27 PM
>
> 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
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