Can I put the contents of the hoover on my compost heap.

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It is just that grey clogged up dust.

Dont think so incase of any germs picked up.

If was just hair, would be fine.

Yes, you can, but it might be worth checking there are no tiny bits of lego or other non-degradable bits! After all, compost is made up of loads of things that are full of microbes. You can put in pet hairs, too.

Right can I have a third deciding opinion.

I do.

I don't think it's a good idea if you have carpets (& therefore carpet fluff in your hoover) as carpets aren't recommended for use anymore as a mulch or as a cover for compost heaps due to the chemicals used in them.

link here

I thought it was fine if you have wool carpets

Thanks for the link. I will put it in the bin then. What about the fluff in the tumble dryer.

Wool carpets are treated with chemicals just like the artificial fibre ones

Depends what you use the compost for, then. If only for flower beds should be OK, but not for use on fruit/veg beds.

If your carpets are 100% natural fibres then you could compost for flower bed use - anything manmade will not compost of course

No idea about tumble drier fluff....

I read somewhere that tumble drier fluff was fine as long as not manmade fibres - but then maybe that doesn't take into account chemical treatments on the fabric either?

Tumble drier fluff would be full of man made fibres or at least concentrated chemicals from the washing powder/fabric conditioner etc. I wouldn't use it.

Of course if you only have organic hemp clothing and use soapnuts it would be fine, except that I can't see such a person using a tumble drier

But you can take this too far can't you; there are chemicals in paper and cardboard too and we don't give a second thought about putting that in the compost bin. I have put tumble drier fluff in the compost bin, admittedly mostly the fluff from my cotton nappies when I have to tumble dry them (no softener and barely any detergent used)

I do and it is mostly cat hair

Probably not provinciallady.