Contents of a vacuum bag - good/bad for compost?

**Two_Sheds** · 24-02-2010, 02:53 PM

of course, dust and dirt is completely compostable.

**quark1** · 24-02-2010, 02:59 PM

Thank you - thought it would be OK - but just wanted the endorsement from one who has tried and tested!

**snuffer** · 24-02-2010, 03:06 PM

Have always emptied vacuum onto compost heap. Like yours it mostly seems to be cat and dog hair. Soon rots down and becomes unrecognisable in the heap.

**Bigmallly** · 24-02-2010, 03:45 PM

It's something I have never thought about but will now, thanks.

**Nicos** · 24-02-2010, 03:57 PM

My vac had a clear chamber and you could tell which room had been vacuumed by the colour of the debris

As none of my carpets were 100% wool- and some were treated- I never would have put it on my compost!!
Can't see a problem if you have wooden floors, but I wouldn't want to add synthetic fibre to my compost!

....so there's a different viewpoint!!!

**Bren In Pots** · 24-02-2010, 04:24 PM

Mine also goes in the compost bin along with Mr in Pots hair after I've had the trimmer round it.

**jacob marley** · 24-02-2010, 05:43 PM

I posted this news last year some time the gardening expert that comes on the BBC Coventry and Warwickshire gardening program in the Annie Oathen show in the morning he advocates putting the dust out of a hoover bag on to the compost around the Tomatoes growing in the pots good fertilizer he says.

.jacob

**Sanjo** · 24-02-2010, 06:06 PM

Originally posted by Nicos View Post

My vac had a clear chamber and you could tell which room had been vacuumed by the colour of the debris

As none of my carpets were 100% wool- and some were treated- I never would have put it on my compost!!
Can't see a problem if you have wooden floors, but I wouldn't want to add synthetic fibre to my compost!

....so there's a different viewpoint!!!

I'm with you Nicos. Hair, from cutting, goes on the compost but because the carpets are not wool I don't do it either.

**rustylady** · 24-02-2010, 06:10 PM

Go for it. What else will you do with it? Send it to the council landfill? Might as well put it on your own compost heap.

**elsie-scot** · 24-02-2010, 06:12 PM

thats good news, I wasnt sure about the dog hairs (which is what most of our vacuum chamber is)

**jackyspratty** · 24-02-2010, 09:57 PM

I watched a gardening dvd last year, and the guy emptied the contents of the vac bag directlyonto the tom pots and then watered over them. The pots with the vac contents were meant to have higher yields etc. Unfortunately it took me a while to get enough debris together, so I couldnt test it. This yaer Ive been saving my sealed vac bags, so I might do half and half on the toms and see if theirs a difference?

**quark1** · 25-02-2010, 02:02 PM

Thank you all for your input - will certainly top up composter with this 'new' component - and like the idea to place around foot of toms as added extras.

Whilst man-made fibres may not rot down - would they not add 'bulk' in much the same way as you might use those 'white esses' or polystyrene bits ('scuse spelling?) which come as packing to add as drainage and to make large pots lighter. They can also act as an insulator?

Glad this has also given others the thought to use - much better than landfill!

Cheers!

**eieio** · 25-02-2010, 02:08 PM

I had heard about doing this too so will defo starting puttng mine in the compost.

**Two_Sheds** · 25-02-2010, 02:36 PM

Originally posted by Nicos View Post

As none of my carpets were 100% wool- and some were treated- I never would have put it on my compost!

Originally posted by Sanjo View Post

I'm with you Nicos. Hair, from cutting, goes on the compost but because the carpets are not wool I don't do it either.

My carpets are synthetic too, but they hardly shed any fibres at all, certainly not enough to cause me concern.
Most of the contents are hair, feathers, bird seed, dead skin and ... pins

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