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shawn-butler 11 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: The regenerative urban garden I: No-till gardening

Might have been true 20 years ago. There are very few toxicities in newsprint that rise above natural levels in soil within a very short half life.

https://www.alliumfields.org/2015/05/is-newspaper-in-compost... has data for you and I believe there is a soil health group at Cornell that published alot of studies.

legulere 11 months ago [–]

The article simply handwaves the problem of pcb away and there’s not even talk about PFAS.

Here’s an article by a PhD in Horticulture: https://gardenprofessors.com/cardboard-does-not-belong-on-yo...

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