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Fruit stickers are the бич of the compost pile

When everything else decays, those little plastic stickers remain

There they are again — in the контейнере для компоста, littered through the backyard pile, stuck in the sifter, peeping out of the garden beds — the eternal проклятие of many home gardeners: the small, вездесущие, and remarkably indestructible produce sticker.

“I painstakingly remove every produce sticker from every piece of fruit and veg that enters our home,” says James Hohman, a professor at the University of Connecticut. But his compost pile lives on top of a compost pile used by the previous owners of his house.

When Hohman’s family first moved in, he sifted the pile, removing “probably hundreds of stickers.” But more stickers kept showing up for years — in the куче and in the garden beds.

Joshua Simpson, who lives in Washington, knows his pain. “I have composted blue jeans well before those dumb stickers have gone away,” he says. His family also feeds their food scraps to their chickens, resulting in produce stickers “all over the yard.”

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