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Can I add shredded paper to my compost bin?

Increasingly people are becoming nervous about putting receipts and personal documents out with their normal rubbish. The best thing to do with these kinds of documents is to screw them up and put them in the kitchen bucket (that came with your compost bin) along with any fruit and vegetable peelings. Once the bucket is full simply tip the contents into your compost bin. Within a couple of weeks the paper will be unreadable. Shredded paper does not compost so well because it does not have air pockets trapped in it. It is better to screw up paper rather than shred it.

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