well there were people on google asking about veg oil too and they said it's fine in small amounts...but what's considered 'small'? and ya, I'm not sure about oil breaking down either though.Kisal wrote:I have no idea about vegetable oil, although I've always been under the impression that oil of any kind wasn't exactly good for compost. I don't have the answer to that one.
Popcorn should be fine.
The only things I'm positive don't compost well are solid or large-ish pieces of bone, and hair. Bone meal ought to do fine, though, IMO.
Ah. But is that composting? That is the question isn't it? Remediating compounds in the soil, or dirt if you will, is one thing. Remediating compounds in an aerobic composting process is another. Mushrooms may grow in compost but do mushrooms compost?Ah, but if you watch the Six Ways Mushrooms Can Save the World/Earth, you can use a bed of Oyster mushrooms to "digest" oil. He was talking about petroleum oil but no doubt the Oysters will happily dine on vegetable oil as well.
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Candy is dandy but it takes a while.
If you throw in big, huge candy canes into the pile, you might expect to see remnants next Christmas.
Break it up and blend it through out the pile and it will 'disappear' faster. A brick of candy will stick around for a while. If you ate a brick of candy all at once you might not feel so hot. If you ate that same amount of candy over the course of a day less so. If you took a week to consume that brick it would impact you even less. I would expect the same in a compost pile.
Create the right environment with air, moisture and, food. Maximize the surface area of the items to be digested and their exposure to air, moisture and, food and you should get the maximum results.
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. quite clever and it does help put things into perspective!
ahhhh, thanks, i can sleep nowrot wrote:..
Thanks even it does seem ridiculous.
To sense or two cents. Considered and what it's worth.
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hey you got it RG! I'm glad you like it. i was just wanting one location where that if you're in doubt, it can be posted here!rainbowgardener wrote:Great thread, thanks for starting it, ridiculous.
I don't have much to add to all rot's wisdom, but I second the notion of breaking things down to make them compost accessible. I have a little chipper/shredder that I run tough vines and woody plants through, before composting. Stuff that would probably stay in the compost pile a year if thrown in whole, breaks down rapidly that way. Same principle would apply to your candy, though you might need a food processor rather than a chipper/ shredder to do it.
good question. the stick itself I'm sure is just a-ok...but like you said, what about the ignition part??katylaide wrote:What about spent matchsticks? I snap off the ignition material and put the wood in the bin just to be safe, but something tells me it wouldn't be bad to put the whole match in.
interesting theory....applestar wrote:That's true... I was thinking more along the lines of disposing the oil in a pit or a trench in an established bed, then covering with substrate mixed with spawn; or starting a new bed on top of an oil spread ground, though. If such a practice would work, then you could have your own used oil disposal site. Once the shrooms have digested the oil and depleted the nutrients in the location, you can move the bed elsewhere and use the remediated site for planting.
Our red wall to wall carpet is some kind of indestructible synthetic fiber. Had those red fibers floating around the yard for years!that's interesting...applestar wrote:I believe you're thinking of dryer LINT. Same applies -- if the lint is from drying mostly 100% natural fiber clothes, then the lint CAN go in the compost pile. Some people put them out for the nesting birds, but there's some evidence that the lint causes respiratory distress for the chicks (perhaps esp. when it's mixed synthetic fiber)
Up until very recently I thought so too. But it turns out they found a [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon-eating_bacteria]nylon eating bacteria in Japan[/url]. You heard right. Stopped me cold for a sec too. Get your hands on this and you can compost nylon.If they are synthetics, nylon, rayon, then no, they are indestructible.
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I've been telling everyone I know. Our house is quite dry & 2-3 aluminum balls (reused a hundred times by now!) will remove static except if I have 2-3 fleecy things in at once, in which case dryer sheets don't do it then either. And they don't smell!!!! 
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