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toilet roll tubes, cereal boxes), newspaper, magazines, etc. to the Compost pile. Such material should be distributed thoroughly throughout the heap, and well stirred through (mixed) in order to increase its surface area and improve aeration in the heap. It would be ideal for adding where there is a large proportion of Nitrogen ous material, e.g., grass mowings, kitchen vegetable wastes, and so on, and is thus well-suited to household-scale composting. In the past it was not considered advisable to add coloured inks to compost due to the possibility of contamination by Toxin s, although CAT has stated that due to changes in manufacturing processes, this is no longer an issue. Composting of paper products is a practice which is being actively promoted by waste recycling officers in many UK Local Authorities, and if widely adopted could go some way to alleviating some of the current problems associated with post-consumer waste disposal, e.g., pressures on land fill sites. SEE ALSO |
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