Apparently it is impregnated with a hydrophobic sizing agent called alkyl ketene dimer. The website says it is home compostable and non toxic but I dont want to tear it up and throw it in my compost only to keep finding bits of it for the next year. I would reuse it but it was steeped in raw fish juice when it was given to me so its got to go.
by DorianGreyPoupon
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Try making a small experiment pile and see what it does and if it does then all good and if no then dispose of and no loss
Try soaking it in a bucket of water and see what it does.
Make a new pile Inisde of it, if it composts fine, it it doesn’t you have a little compost container
And if you could get more of that ‘fish juice’ to go in the pile, too…oh boy!
I have, I threw it into my lazy compost pile last year and it’s not around now. Not sure how long it took because I don’t turn that pile often.
I used one as a container for potatoes a couple years ago, and by the end of the season, the bottom was completely rotted out and the sides were disintegrating. Send it.
Akd will decompose down into an amino acid which will subsequently get eaten by microbes. Sent it.
Safety Data Sheet for the compound you mentioned (but these are hard to interpret correctly)
If anyone knows how, I’d love to know
https://www.biosynth.com/Files/MSDS/FA/31/MSDS_FA31709_5000_EN.pdf
I got some wine in similar packaging a couple months back. I just filled it with compost and pissed on it repeatedly. It’s completely disappeared into the pile
Unrelated to compost. One time I took one of these camping and a raccoon came right up to my picnic table and took a chomp out of the corner of it. Was only like 2’ away from me. 🦝
This stuff comes in light fixtures boxes sometimes. I haven’t had any problems with it.