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Originally Posted by efisakov
On the topic, I know that even paper can be used to build the soil, even grow mushrooms. Newspapers have to much ink, magazines as well. Boxes picked from local stores can be used for that. Maybe...
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Modern newspaper ink uses vegetable oil and carbon black. Newspaper is not toxic and good food for worms. The slick color advertising paper is mostly ok too, in spite of what you may have heard. It mostly uses clay to get that "shiny" appearance. Most the colors non toxic. Unfortunately that isn't 100% though. So a dogmatic person will still separate out the color advertising from the black and white newsprint.
There was a time when newspaper inks had toxic chemicals in them. That's where this myth got started. But actually the printer's unions are quite strong and the inks used today are much safer due to pressure from the union to protect worker safety.