I think with kleenex your options are bury it, burn it, or MAYBE a serious system (i.e. not home) could compost it or digest it. For most of us, it's the former two.
I'm curious as to why you say a home compost system wouldn't be able to handle them? I know they're not up for handling fats / meats, but I'd be startled if mucus fell into that category - earthworms secrete mucus, after all. (Not exactly the same stuff, I'm sure, but...?)
There are two main reasons. First, I'm leery about the bio-hazard issues of dumping used kleenex in a home compost system - home systems usually have slow and incomplete decomposition and I'd worry about coming across contaminated material in the garden soil. Second, many kleenex manufacturers put additional chemicals in their product, from perfumes to moisturizers, and a home system doesn't usually have the volume to dilute such things to inconsequential levels.
Wow, I never thought of my snot as a bio-hazard! I guess I always assumed that anything dangerous in my snot would die fairly quick, although I don't actually have any basis for that.
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Date: 2010-01-18 07:35 pm (UTC)And I do have cooties, so...
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Date: 2010-01-18 05:58 pm (UTC)Whether the person emptying the compost is OK with it could be relevant, though.
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Date: 2010-01-18 07:00 pm (UTC)YMMV, of course.
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