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Should any other common products be added to this document? What other products do you have questions about?

20 Aug 2024

What can be composted depends on the rate at which it breaks down, the type of material and also whether our particular compost process can efficiently turn it into compost. 

For example, the ability to compost plastic bags labelled as biodegradable or compostable varies between different brands meaning each type or brand of bag breaks down at a different rate. So, even though a bag is labelled as biodegradable, it doesn’t necessarily mean it will break down fast enough for the composting process that we use. Since they don’t break down, plastic bags produce litter during the composting screening process, which is a nuisance and can be costly to clean up. 

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  • Nicole Stein 8 months ago
    Perhaps it would be beneficial to provide a list of weeds that should not go in the green bins.  To be honest, I just noticed now that noxious weeds were on the grey bin list.  If people did see that, many aren’t going to take the time to google what weeds are noxious weeds.  Thistle is a noxious weed, I never knew that until last year.  Before that I just thought it was an annoying prickly weed.  
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    Share Perhaps it would be beneficial to provide a list of weeds that should not go in the green bins.  To be honest, I just noticed now that noxious weeds were on the grey bin list.  If people did see that, many aren’t going to take the time to google what weeds are noxious weeds.  Thistle is a noxious weed, I never knew that until last year.  Before that I just thought it was an annoying prickly weed.   on Facebook Share Perhaps it would be beneficial to provide a list of weeds that should not go in the green bins.  To be honest, I just noticed now that noxious weeds were on the grey bin list.  If people did see that, many aren’t going to take the time to google what weeds are noxious weeds.  Thistle is a noxious weed, I never knew that until last year.  Before that I just thought it was an annoying prickly weed.   on Twitter Share Perhaps it would be beneficial to provide a list of weeds that should not go in the green bins.  To be honest, I just noticed now that noxious weeds were on the grey bin list.  If people did see that, many aren’t going to take the time to google what weeds are noxious weeds.  Thistle is a noxious weed, I never knew that until last year.  Before that I just thought it was an annoying prickly weed.   on Linkedin Email Perhaps it would be beneficial to provide a list of weeds that should not go in the green bins.  To be honest, I just noticed now that noxious weeds were on the grey bin list.  If people did see that, many aren’t going to take the time to google what weeds are noxious weeds.  Thistle is a noxious weed, I never knew that until last year.  Before that I just thought it was an annoying prickly weed.   link
    • Admin Commented Hailey 7 months ago
      Great suggestion Nicole! I'll mark that down for future brochure edits or additions to our FAQs!
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      Share Great suggestion Nicole! I'll mark that down for future brochure edits or additions to our FAQs! on Facebook Share Great suggestion Nicole! I'll mark that down for future brochure edits or additions to our FAQs! on Twitter Share Great suggestion Nicole! I'll mark that down for future brochure edits or additions to our FAQs! on Linkedin Email Great suggestion Nicole! I'll mark that down for future brochure edits or additions to our FAQs! link