When in doubt… compost
We got some of those apparently compostable spoons on our last trip to IKEA (they’re made of corn and feel like soft plastic). I thought it would be fun to see how long they take to break down, so I threw them in the compost as I was turning it today. Might as well see how they do; I saw on someone else’s blog that they tried to compost one of those “compostable” plastic bag, and it wasn’t going anywhere after a year.
The most fun part of turning the compost is seeing all the worms at work… there are so many of them. I know this photo probably looks kind of disgusting to some of you, but it is an amazing sight to see hundreds of worms in each shovel-full. They seem to show up and as time goes on, there are more and more of them. By the time the compost is ready to put on the garden, we’re adding nice fertilizer plus a ton of worms.
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We use corn based bowls and potato based spoons in our ice cream shop. Apparently the compost pile needs to be really hot for them to break down. Our home pile isn’t hot enough, but if you put them in the Seattle food waste bins, the industrial strength composters should do it. I agree that it would be nice to see the process on my own, but oh well.