@cavyherd @ai6yr I live on a cool and damp coastline and my compost moves quite slowly
and definitely does not get hot enough to actually cook off pathogens
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In response to this post@sarae @cavyherd I still have a "compostable spoon" wandering around my piles here... it surfaces every so often. It's been a few years, but it was "composting" for more than 6 years in hot compost and not decaying.
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Yeah, I saw an analysis a while back that boiled down to: "If it feels like plastic, it's basically plastic."
Our local municiple compost was having so much trouble with contaminants that they banned everything except food scraps & plant cuttings. Which SUCK, bc we'd finally sorta gotten staff at work trained.
Oh, well 😕
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Yeah, that's a challenge. I have a friend who has Major Composting Infrastructure, & while she'll run family dog "output" through her hot compost, any other dog stuff goes into the city system.
@cavyherd @sarae My compost doesn't get hot enough, although this year I had the fortunate takeover of one compost pile by BSFL and was chucking entire chicken carcasses, ribs, you name it in there. It was FABULOUS. However, the larvae appear to have gone dormant since it's gotten cold, so that stuff is going into muni compost now mixed with some extra mulch I have. (hate throwing it in there, but gotta keep down the funk). I hope the larvae reactivate when things warm up again.
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