Absolutely. The bags will decompose eventually. You can use newspaper or cardboard as well. Rodney

Lloyd, Well for quite some years, I was known for making HotOlives . I would make them simply by adding habanera peppers in solution to already processed queen or king green olive. I would them cure for about 30 to 45 days. It seemed that anyone that was willing to try these insanely hot olives would tend to ask for them again. So I became prone, not known to having people try them especially new people that would come over. My teenagers at the time would almost always make there friends eat at least one. Everyone of course would just watch the reaction because these things would make your eyes water. I would eventually give them some milk. Some of my teenage daughterÂs friends were over one night and I asked what would be a good user name for an online dating site. One of them said HotOlive, I said yes what a name for a dating site. So the name stuck. Take care David (hotolive)

Hello, We have a couple flower beds and shrubs in front of our house, nothing fancy (variegated weigela, burning bush, hydrangeas, geraniums, bulbs, shasta daisies). We shred all our junk mail, and now have more shredded paper than we can use for packing material! I'm intrigued by the idea of using it as mulch, since we probably need more mulch in the flower beds anyway. I have no idea if the inks in the junk mail are soy-based or not, and no means or inclination to try to chase down that information. However, we don't have any food plants in the garden and don't anticipate adding any. I read the 2005 post on another thread about filling a water bucket with shredded paper and laying down the mulch, and that sounds like the method we'd be most likely to use. Would our shredded junk mail make acceptable mulch for our nonfood garden? Or would something in the various junk mail hurt our plants? What do you think? I appreciate any advice you can offer. I'm interested in all this stuff but pretty clueless! :) Thank you in advance!

I got mine today. I also got a 2 pk Black Ink HP Printer cartridge set for $52. She gave me one of the packs of paper free since they were out of the free HP paper that was a bonus with the cartridges. I should have gotten a rain check but don't plan to go there for awhile; I'm happy.