Don’t be daft mate. You’re pushing the ridiculous 25 year claim without any support. Sadly “someone with a phd told me so” is not really adequate.
Do you honestly believe that it’s true or just too pigheaded to admit that this is not really a fact?
I’m not sure it’s “nitpicky” to ask for clarification of a claim of 25 years when in reality 8 weeks is far more likely.
Is it so hard to admit that perhaps claim is misleading at best and therefore probably not “100% true” ?
So the claim is something like
Lettuces in landfills [generally decompose within a few weeks, but under some very specific and unusual circumstances in a controlled simulation of what a landfill might be like it can] take up to 25 years to [completely] decompose [due to something related to the lignin effect, although I can’t find any reliable source for this].
Hard to believe was what was being asked
Not really, Hard to believe but true was the question - but there’s no evidence or even theory that this one may be true.
Ordinarily I’m not a super nitpicky asshole, but given the 100% true requirement it feels kind of appropriate?
the number is present in many websites about trash or composting
The number of websites quoting the same thing makes it seem credible but ultimately doesn’t mean much. All I can find is blog-spam quoting this number. Suppose I write on my blog that lettuce decays in 25 days.
Even if this is exaggerating, the moral of the story is […]
Obviously, we shouldn’t be putting vegetable matter in landfill, but hyperbole has ever been a very poor way to promote ones cause.
But it’s possible that that lettuce was a fresh and plastic wrapped thrown to the landfill like that, because that does happen as well. And maybe that created optimal conditions to prevent decomposition.
The anaerobes are already present on the lettuce from day 1. Wrapping in plastic doesn’t keep them out because they’re already in. Even if you could create optimal conditions for preserving lettuce in landfill, that’s not really the same as the claim which is being made here.
I really don’t know anything about this but … It looks as though most vegetables will be 100% sludge after 8 weeks in anaerobic conditions.
I suspect that this 25 year factoid is derived from some specific conditions and very specific use of the term “completely decomposed”. For example, maybe under laboratory conditions, anaerobic decomposition quickly turns a lettuce to sludge in 8 weeks, but can’t break down cellulose polymer chains or something. So for all intents and purposes the lettuce is gone but if you looked at the sludge 20 years later you would still find some of those polymer chains present.
You’re obviously not from the USA.
I find this so hard to believe.
Had a quick search, nothing really credible.
Of course it’s going to depend on a lot of variables, but I can’t imagine it taking more than a year in any case.
A lot of bacteria doesn’t need significant oxygen to decompose things, and it’s not like it’s the bottom of the dead sea.
Yeah it’s not true.
Is this really that useful though?
I pretty much just assume that I’m getting pwned regularly.
Obviously the password manager advice is very useful.
I don’t think they just want a swollen battery dumped in their battery recycling bin with all the other batteries.