Recycled cardboard/newspaper issue

[Glutton4...]

i'm with parsleythelion and Poddington Pea on this one. I have felt much happier since not watching the news or reading newspapers. I don't feel like i'm behind the times on important stuff it's just my heads not filled with all the faff and i don't get concerned over the stuff they use to scare us out of our wits every few days. It is a personal choice as is to use cardboard/newspaper in compost or not. I shall continue to use both items until logic and/or a reasonable source tells me otherwise.

I am soooo with you there. I only have newspapers in the house at the moment for the Puppy to wee on. That's all they're good for!!!!

[snohare]

If it has a glossy surface and is coloured, it has had a heat treatment and needs to be solvent based inks.
If it is matt then even if coloured, the inks are based on soya, as they are much cheaper and the newspaper industry loves soy inks.
That is what I seem to remember from a fairly lengthy New Scientist article on it anyway; I did a bit of reading up on it afterwards, and that all seemed to agree.
Heavy metals are a whole different issue, not to mention boron in the glue that holds normal cardboard together.
Compared to the 40 000 different endocrine disruptors that we are daily surrounded by, I'd consider this both low risk and low hazard, but preferable to avoid on principle; so I don't recycle what I consider dodgy, and only use plain cardboard and newspaper in growing.
But yes, selling newspapers and advertising is the media's job, not educating or informing us.

Other examples Birdflu - not the pandemic we were told it would be. Swineflu - sadly took some lives but many had other underlying health problems, old or young, but in a population of 50 million people a couple of hundred cases isn't really an epidemic.

If a bullet parted your hair Parsley, you'd suddenly get very anxious. Or even if you merely saw a gun pointing in your direction, even though there are millions of places that a bullet might go that don't include hitting you.
The flu virus has two components, one which transmits it and one which makes it more or less deadly. Every time it jumps from one species to another, it mutates; another bullet fired.
If you read a book called "The Spanish Lady" on the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, you will suddenly see why the medical profession collectively wet its pants about a W shaped infection graph and some abnormal immune system reactions, and why it always should. Shame the media never mention exactly why.
Flu is not a bad cold like Askit would have us believe, it is more the familiar neighbour's pet dog that out of the blue one day may rip your family's throats out.

[Poddington Pea]

If it has a glossy surface and is coloured, it has had a heat treatment and needs to be solvent based inks.
If it is matt then even if coloured, the inks are based on soya, as they are much cheaper and the newspaper industry loves soy inks.
That is what I seem to remember from a fairly lengthy New Scientist article on it anyway; I did a bit of reading up on it afterwards, and that all seemed to agree.
Heavy metals are a whole different issue, not to mention boron in the glue that holds normal cardboard together.
Compared to the 40 000 different endocrine disruptors that we are daily surrounded by, I'd consider this both low risk and low hazard, but preferable to avoid on principle; so I don't recycle what I consider dodgy, and only use plain cardboard and newspaper in growing.
But yes, selling newspapers and advertising is the media's job, not educating or informing us.


If a bullet parted your hair Parsley, you'd suddenly get very anxious. Or even if you merely saw a gun pointing in your direction, even though there are millions of places that a bullet might go that don't include hitting you.
The flu virus has two components, one which transmits it and one which makes it more or less deadly. Every time it jumps from one species to another, it mutates; another bullet fired.
If you read a book called "The Spanish Lady" on the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918, you will suddenly see why the medical profession collectively wet its pants about a W shaped infection graph and some abnormal immune system reactions, and why it always should. Shame the media never mention exactly why.
Flu is not a bad cold like Askit would have us believe, it is more the familiar neighbour's pet dog that out of the blue one day may rip your family's throats out.

Bladdy 'el now there's a morbid, take no prisoners quote if ever I saw one
Quite right about flu, so many people say they've had 'flu' without having a clue what real flu is. Even regular flu kills thousands in the UK every year, another point the media forgot to mention when stirring up the fear.

[chris]

I am soooo with you there. I only have newspapers in the house at the moment for the Puppy to wee on. That's all they're good for!!!!

Not even composting?