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  • From: Liz Pike <pike AT always-online.com>
  • To: market-farming AT franklin.oit.unc.edu
  • Subject: Re: compost tumber
  • Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2000 17:01:14 -0500


On Thu, 9 Mar 2000 14:00:26 -0500, you wrote:

>Plasticizers aren't released in the way you are thinking of release.
>Containers are probably a polyolefin such as HDPE and do not contain
>plasticizers anyway. There are other low boiling components such as waxes and
>lubricants and impurities which may be released at the temperatures you
>mention
>

This is the response I received from scientists at BASF as to
plasticizers being released in compost tumblers made of plastic soft
drink barrels. But now I wonder about those other
"impurities"--hmmm.

Liz Pike
Morningstar Gardens
Pollocksville NC



  • Re: compost tumber, Liz Pike, 03/09/2000

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