bungeejumper wrote:Bouleversee wrote:Can one put kitchen paper with which one has mopped up the oil in sardine tins in an ordinary compost bin? I wouldn't dream of pouring it down the drain so just put the oily paper in the household waste bin but would prefer to compost it unless it attracted vermin.
Yum, essence of sardine. My favourite. Or shall I just line my nest with it? Squeak!
BJ
Well, I wouldn't put it in the large home-made and unsealed containers at the bottom of the garden but I put my kitchen waste in a Dalek type near the house which has a trapdoor and solid sides and cover so the squeakers would find it difficult to get in so long as I replaced the trapdoor after extracting compost. I actually find the Dalek produces well rotted compost rather quicker than the bigger bins but not all that much of it at one time, of course. I suppose my query was really whether kitchen paper soaked in olive oil would add anything useful to the compost as well as being more environmentally friendly.