Identity thieves wouldn't dare ...

... stick their hand into the pulsing mass of slugs, worms and oversized toads that is my compost heap in search of the  scraps of my receipts. It's the perfect place for all those shreddings you don't know what to do with. Particularly when damped down with a big bucket of stinking comfrey juice.

Or urine.

Both great compost activators, by the way.

And, as I understand it most inks now are made of natural materials and should decompose harmlessly, right? (As always feel free to correct if I am off base on this one).

Comments

[Patrick]

I'm not so sure about ink being safe now. I know inkjet ink cartridges and laser printer toner have to be turned in for chemical disposal here. Also most white paper is bleached without chlorine now, but paper that isn't can contain PCBs.

[steven]

I put newspapers in the compost and the local paper uses soy-based inks. I'm not so sure about bills and staements.