Tim Streater wrote:
In article , Roger Hayter
wrote:

Tim Streater wrote:


Why not compost egg shells -

The bones and eggshells are wrapped in newspaper as requested and are
in a small bin with a locked lid.
Quite so. But someone suggested composting them.

Presumably SWMBO has tried that.


According to my other half eggshells will only get broken down efficiently
in a compost bin/heap if you are prepared to pulverise them into really
small fragments first.
Something to do with the ability of worms to ingest material to digest it,
their mouths dont have teeth so all matter has to be soft or small enough
to be drawn in by the mouth muscles .
Eggshells just broken in half and chucked in the compost are just too
large.

GH