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  • From: "TradingPostPaul" <tradingpost@riseup.net>
  • To: livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Glyphosate factsheet
  • Date: Wed, 16 May 2007 14:03:06 -0600


Interesting. We're using Kelloggs Patio Plus as one ingredient in potting
mix. I hope it's not a problem since it works very well with a
vermiculite-compost mix for starting seedlings.

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 5/16/2007 at 11:37 AM yarrow@sfo.com wrote:

>More details on what happens to toxins in compost...
>
>
>Questioning the compost supply chain
>
>As politicians increasingly use composting to
>solve municipal waste and recycling issues, what
>happens to the pesticides, herbicides and
>pharmaceuticals that may have gone into the mix
>along with the lettuce leaves
>
>
>Deborah K. Rich, Special to The Chronicle
>
>Saturday, May 5, 2007
>
><http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2007/05/05/HOGD3PJOUT1
.DTL&o=0&type=printable>
>
>
>If soil, which breaks down fallen plant and
>animal materials, can be likened to the Earth's
>liver, then composting is becoming the liver of
>modern society -- tasked with processing and
>reducing lawn clippings, food scraps, manure and
>sewage. Given the chemicals we spray on our
>lawns, feed our livestock and swallow to keep us
>happy and functioning, are we asking too much of
>our collective microbial liver? Can composting
>detoxify chemicals, or are we spreading heavy
>metals, pesticides and drug residues in our
>gardens?
>
>The answers to these questions are uncertain.
>
>Composting is the mixing and management of
>organic waste (plant and animal materials and
>byproducts) to achieve ratios of carbon to
>nitrogen that accelerate and maximize microbial
>degradation of organic matter. By harnessing the
>power of microbes, municipalities can reduce and
>recycle plant and animal waste even where land
>and time are too scarce to accommodate the soil's
>comparatively slow rate of decomposition. "By
>composting, you are duplicating what nature would
>do given the chance," says Dale Arnold, director
>of quality control and research at Kellogg Garden
>Products. Kellogg sells compost and other soil
>amendments to 3,500 independent retail nurseries,
>as well as Home Depot and Lowe's. "Nature takes a
>long, long time to make compost. All we're doing
>is speeding up that natural cycle."
>
>Yard trimmings, wood waste from construction,
>animal manure, agricultural byproducts and
>biosolids from sewage treatment plants are the
>primary feedstock for the roughly 170 composters
>and waste processors that operate in California.
>
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