Re glue, it entirely depends on what the glue is made of. Apparently it's commonly soya. Toilet roll and cardboard boxes are mostly made of that. Worms tend to adore glue, I find.
Morrison are using paper bags instead of plastic, they do disintegrate very quickly, I put 2 potatoes in one, by the time I got to the checkout it was in shreds, rather that than plastic though.
I remember that packaging, it had a lovely smell similar to puffed wheat.
With regard to council not taking newspaper, I thought they had removed the ‘nasties’ in printing ink, I never have a scrap of food waste but our council did say it could go in news paper.
Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor.
Printing ink is fine now and has been for some time. That council is still in the dark ages!
Fire - we had a long series of posts in the curmudgeon thread bemoaning glues used for labels and how to get rid of it. Definitely not good for worms. Hence my comment.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Isn't it about time the country had a unified nationwide recycling scheme. It seems atrocious to me that nearly every council have different rules on this and that - no wonder we're all confused!
I couldn't agree more. Broxtowe don't recycle glass, so they come from my friends into my Erewash bin. Ashfield charge for garden bins, Bolsover don't, so my mum fills my brothers bin up and he takes it back in his van when it needs emptying.
You beat me to it Lizzie ! Our council introduced food waste bins with strict instructions as to what liners could be used. Only ones from certain supermarkets could be used, and newspaper to line them was a no no. Of course people got fed up and just stopped using them. Suddenly the council decided newspaper was okay after all, and so were other supermarket liners. Just down the road, they come under a different council that accepts different items for recycling - a friend of mine takes stuff that we can't recycle here over to her daughter about 2 miles away and brings back the stuff that her daughter can't recycle but we can! How crazy is that ?
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I remember that packaging, it had a lovely smell similar to puffed wheat.
With regard to council not taking newspaper, I thought they had removed the ‘nasties’ in printing ink, I never have a scrap of food waste but our council did say it could go in news paper.
Fire - we had a long series of posts in the curmudgeon thread bemoaning glues used for labels and how to get rid of it. Definitely not good for worms. Hence my comment.