benp1 wrote: ↑Sat Oct 19, 2019 4:56 pm
ScotRoutes wrote: ↑Fri Oct 18, 2019 10:49 pm
benp1 wrote: ↑Fri Oct 18, 2019 10:18 pm
I fling the grounds away
why don't you take the grounds back with you?
Good challenge. As they are used as compost and for gardening I haven't seen it as a problem, and apparently after use they are pH neutral. Is it worse than going to the toilet?
I'm an avid practitioner of LNT, and can't think of anything else I leave behind, apart from the occasional "bodily product," but I scatter my coffee grounds too.
ScotRoutes wrote: ↑Sat Oct 19, 2019 5:36 pm
Toiletting is (almost) unavoidable. Leaving anything else isn't. I operate on the "what if everyone did it" principle.
In this case, I genuinely think if everyone did it, in areas whether there's already soil, you wouldn't notice. To all intents and purposes used coffee grounds
are soil, albeit without any bacteria (yet) since they've just been sterilised.
I reckon you could take all the used grounds from everyone who's made a coffee in the outdoors in the UK this year and scatter them in my small (let's say 25sqm) back garden and I wouldn't notice, and there would be no detrimental effect.