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Ah, I didn't read that closely. Yeah, I think it would compost, but not that quickly. The leather will take ages to break down, but I'm guessing the wool would break down more quickly.
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I expect that sheep fleece would slowly compost. It's protein. I assume it's just the fleece, and not the hide? I think it would be a slow process b/c of the lanolin properties. Too bad you couldn't salvage it for it's original intention. I bring home all of the coffee grounds I can get my hands on.
I expect that sheep fleece would slowly compost. It's protein. I assume it's just the fleece, and not the hide? I think it would be a slow process b/c of the lanolin properties. Too bad you couldn't salvage it for it's original intention. I bring home all of the coffee grounds I can get my hands on.
I had an old fleece I had not spun and I tried using some of it for bedding during the really cold weather. Now it is all mixed in with straw....do you think it would compost? Of course, there is lanolin in it. What do you all think?
Also, I wondered if any of you have collected grounds from coffee shops....I tried to get some from Starbucks one year and it seems that one of the employees was taking it so I didn't get much from them. I may ask at a couple other shops in our area.
Yes the fleece will compost, but it will take a while. To speed it up cut it into small pieces and mix it well with other materials, preferably fairly wet stuff, to help the bacteria and fungi get through the oils. If you just dump a pile of fleece in it's likely to stay dry in the center and not decompose.
Make sure you get the lids too as the coffee shops want the collection spot to look sanitary and hygienic.Thanks for the info regarding frosting buckets! There's a dunkin donuts 8 miles from me. I've been meaning to call them.
You're quite right, Felix, I should have said that around here it is definitely not recommended to put meat & dairy in the compost due to there being all manner of predators. When we lived in the mountains the most serious were the raccoons & mountain lions, with occasional bears in the autumn when they were trying to fatten up before hibernation. Now that we're living in the suburbs (still semi-rural with lots of irrigation ditches & large drainage gulches on account of it being old farming land) we have those predators that have adjusted well to suburban living - foxes, coyotes, raccoons and skunks. Raccoons are terribly destructive as well as being nasty chicken killers, and no-one wants to encourage skunks. Also, being in the suburbs, one does not wish to antagonize one's nearby neighbors with hordes of flies and a stench from the compost heap.
Penny
PS When Paco (the-chicken-killer-dog) killed the mice from the nest under the compost heap, I threw the sad little carcasses into the chicken run. They totally disappeared in short order.