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Re: Recycling health warning!

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From: ant
Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 00:00
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Michael Adams wrote in message <8gi0sg$8rq$1@news.sysnet.net.tw>...
>
>  Here's an interesting one.... recycling and composting can cause
>serious health problems. I don't recall our local enviornmentalists
>warning us about this when they started the recycling tax, oh I mean
>mandated "curbside recycling fee" and forced us to pay it on the
>water bill.
>  I recycle every week, but you would think those encouraging
>recycling and composting would put some kind of warnings in with
>the water bill.
>  "Warning  - recycling can be hazardous to your health."
>
>

only if you dont empty your compost bins daily, my great gran told me how
important it was to do these things regularly, she was raised in the era
before domestic waste collection services existed and recyceling and
composting was the norm.

so a real simple solution to the "problem" of extra allergans and bacteria
is to empty the compost bin daily.

<snip>

>   Dr Heederik said the solution was either to keep the bins outside, or
>   to empty them more regularly.
>

there you go, "health hazard" solved.

ant
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Subject: Re: Recycling health warning!
Date: 2000/05/26
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