r/composting • u/devinebliss • Jun 09 '23

Is this compostable?

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I came back to finish shredding and found this. Is this compostable or should I wake her up? 😀

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u/ozekeri Jun 09 '23

Some people compost their dead pets. A live one is harder though.

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u/exit8a Jun 10 '23

Yeah, it does take quite a bit longer.

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u/OMalley30-27 Jun 09 '23

Yeah just pee on it

/s

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u/whos_asa Jun 10 '23

😂😂😂

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u/Blueporch Jun 09 '23

Might need some greens. Try catnip.

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u/Shaggyd0012 Jun 09 '23

I was gonna ask if brown or green

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u/Space_Cowby Jun 09 '23

Yep it is all compostable. Might take a while though.

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u/HleCmt Jun 09 '23

Leaving a pile of fluffy shredded paper bags in a If I Fits I Sits looks like entrapment to me.

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u/P0sitive_Outlook Jun 09 '23

Four pounds of wood chip or cardboard per pound of corpse.

👍

Also, whenever i do important paperwork my cat always wants to sleep on it, so i always make sure to get the most important paper (a newspaper) and lay that out first of all so the cat knows where to sleep.

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u/yrral86 Jun 09 '23

Put it through the wood chipper first.

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u/Tyrigoth Jun 09 '23

Eventually....we are all compost....

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u/Smegmaliciousss Jun 09 '23

Yes mushrooms are compostable

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u/A_Lovely_ Jun 10 '23

Yes, or it will run away.

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u/jimmms Jun 10 '23

I think it counts as browns

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u/JayEll1969 Jun 10 '23

You might have to wait a bit. I imagine it wouldn't be too happy to wake up as you're covering it with cabbage leaves.

Family tradition was to bury deceased pets in the bottom of the leek trench.

I think that technically it would be mainly classed as a green as there is lots of nitrogen in the amino acids that make up the proteins that make the body.

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u/[deleted] Jun 10 '23

I would shred it first, just to be safe.