Comments on: Seventh Generation Bottles as Worm Food?

By: Bentley

Bentley — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:07:41 +0000

I would absolutely compost these – and in fact, would set up a specific outdoor bin for ALL of them (not just “pee diapers”), as I have done in the past with compostable cat litter. You should mix them with some carbon-rich bedding materials (shredded cardboard, straw, fall leaves etc etc etc), but other than that it’s just a matter of keeping the system protected from the elements, and well away from “regular” composting systems, gardens, waterways etc.
Just my 2 cents

By: John Duffy

John Duffy — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 02:40:34 +0000

If the diapers are biodegradable, I wouldn’t see any reason why you couldn’t hot compost them. I guess you’d have to give it a try and see how well it works…If all diapers were biodegradable, that would be a huge burden off of the landfills

By: thuan

thuan — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:07:33 +0000

I wish all packaging is this “smart”. Sometimes products are no package this way. I hope we all try to recycle as much as we can!

On another note. I recently started using biodegradable baby diaper, Grovia. I put the pee diaper into the green compostable recycling and the poo diaper into the trash. But I was thinking, if I hot compost the pee diaper for 6 months then vermicompost it, would that work? Has any in the vermicompost community try anything like this with compostable diapers?

By: Daniel Herrington

Daniel Herrington — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:17:21 +0000

disregard my last comment I found my answer on their website. http://www.seventhgeneration.com/4X-Laundry-Detergent and of course it is biodegradable….

Happy Holidays all

By: Daniel Herrington

Daniel Herrington — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 16:13:27 +0000

Question. Is this Seveth Gen. biodegradable? That would explain a lot in terms of effectiveness as the biodegradable material would not contain anything that would offset, or damage the worms life cycle. Just curious.