1-10 how much do you care about glue on cardboard?
by Brilliant____Crow
1-10 how much do you care about glue on cardboard?
by Brilliant____Crow
28 Comments
10 if it’s compost for edible plants. 0 if for flowers.
I believe it’s hot melt adhesive. Which is not biodegradable, but its also non toxic. I personally get rid of it. There are biodegradable formulations but would be anyone’s guess what that specific one is.
0 with the glue that’s used to hold cardboard together as it’s generally biodegradable and worms seem to like it. Tape and labels should be removed
I kind of feel that if I started caring I wouldn’t have the time to remove all of it so I would stop using cardboard. And then my whole system would collapse. So I’ve just decided not to research it too much 😳 I do remove any pieces I find in the finished compost though. I always bring a small plastic bag for litter when in the garden anyway, after the former owners of this land used landscape fabric all over the garden (even under the grass???) and also grew strawberries under black plastic that they forgot to remove one fall… so at this point a little glue doesn’t make that much of a difference :/
10 if it’s going through my shredder.
I always remove all plastics but some how every single time I get the compost out some little bit of plastic made it in there.
I peel off anything that’s easy. The hard stuff I just rip a layer from the piece of cardboard off.
I personally don’t care in compost it
I used to not care, but then realised I was finding bits of what look like hot melt glue in the finished compost. So now I try to remove all glue/adhesive.
Usually not very hard to separate, just remove a small section of the box
6.9. I always remove the shipping label before shredding. This is because the worms might otherwise piece it back together and learn where they live. I heard that worms like to be kept in the dark so I don’t let them learn such things.
Use a bit of ipa (rubbing alcohol) to soften the glue and remove it.
What glue? [Immediately puts cardboard into shredder]
pee on it
throw it in
How about 0?
I just send the cardboard off for recycling but I’m not low on compostable materials.
I’d rather have a small amount of excellent compost than a ton of compost that potentially has some toxic stuff in it.
It doesn’t look organic. I would put that in the recycling. Not for my compost.
0. Chuck it in. If they don’t want it, they don’t eat it
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Ever since I found other sources for browns, I’ve stopped adding shredded cardboard to my compost. I just throw all cardboard in the recycle bin. My understanding is that eventually everything breaks down in the soil except plastic.
0. Same with labels and all the rest. Just pee on it and move on.
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Ive heard it’s made from horses
Glue is fine. Most labels get removed.
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I have enough that I chuck anything with glue on it or too much ink. I generally try to get it to a piece like that and then throw that one away, but I don’t waste my time if it’s too much trouble
Personally, I don’t let anything other than regular brown cardboard in my compost. I got a cardboard cutter. Little handheld electronic cutter. Sure you could use an knife but if you’re doing a lot of cardboard the electronic one is really nice to have and it was like 30 bucks on Amazon. I will cut off any ink or glue and throw it in the recycling. Since I don’t know for sure what most stuff is made of that is on those cardboard boxes, I don’t like to include it.
I dont even compost cardboard…
I don’t care about it going in my compost, but I care because it gets into my shredder. I just cut that whole strip off because it’s easier than picking it out of the shredder teeth.