Carefresh

[Toki+Pumpkin+Elmo]

Just to clear it up…  I emailed carefresh to be sure of whether it can be recycled after use.  Here’s what they wrote back to me.

Hello Sarah,

 

It would be unsanitary to try to recycle CareFRESH product once it has been used by your rabbits or any other animal, so we strongly discourage this.  However, people have been known to compost the used product.  I recently attended a lecture on successful composting which, in order to be successful, is much more complicated than I suspected.  I would guess that a lot of other people feel the same way.  Therefore, unfortunately, most people do dispose of used product by putting it in the trash.

 

We certainly commend you for your kind intentions toward the environment.  Keep in mind that by using CareFRESH, you are using a product that would have otherwise gone straight to the landfill.  Instead, your rabbits are provided with a nice cozy bedding material, and this all-natural material gets one very good last use before being thrown away or composted.

 

Thank you for your question.  Feel free to contact us if you have any further questions or concerns.

 

Kind regards,

 

Susan  Murron

Customer Care Representative

Absorption Corp.

1-360-734-7415 ext. 3009

[skunklionshow]

On one of those swap your mommy shows, the mom composted & used the used carefresh.  She said that her bunnies were the best plant food providers.  You could tell it was carefresh…plus I believe I saw a bag in the background and had a good chuckle!

[osprey]

CareFresh (and all organic litters for that matter) are pretty straightforward to compost.  Composting can be really easy or really complicated depending on how into it you get and what you are trying to accomplish.  For example, I compost kitchen scraps, leaves, grass clippings, coffee grounds and all my bunnies’ "output" without a second thought.  You just pile it up, water it once in a while, and let the microbes do their thing.  In a few months you have a servicable mulch, and none of it went out to the curb.  I would not, however, try to compost dog/cat/people wastes, because these can carry pathogens and you need to maintain your pile very carefully to make sure it gets hot enough to kill off the bad guys.  I also do not compost cereal grains, noodles, bread or meat because they attract rodents.

I have successfully composted CareFresh, Yesterday’s News, Cat/Critter Country, Aspen Supreme and wood stove pellets, along with the poops, hay and shredded newspapers that end up in the litterboxes.  If anyone is interested in composting, bunny litter is a great way to start.

 

[Scarlet_Rose]

Very interesting! Thank you all for sharing! I am learning more here every day!

[Gravehearted]

Yeah, I wouldn’t figure it would be safe to recycle – but know people who compost it with good results.

I’m glad you heard back from them! I emailed them months ago about a problem with carefresh ultra and they never bothered to respond to me.

[Deleted User]

We compost the aspen supreme. My husband (the farmer and gardner) loves the rabbit poop. That sounds gross but it is GREAT for your plants. We have been using the aspen supreme for a week now so I don’t know how long it takes. What is in the carefresh. I have seen it in the stores, it is like bright pink or blue right?

[osprey]

There are various kinds of CareFresh products, some colored, and I do not really know the differences between them.  The product itself is made from paper pulp, so it is very soft and extremely absorbant, almost like wadded up paper towels.  The pulp may be made from recycled paper, I am not sure.  I used it for a while and I really did not like it.  The urine makes the CareFresh stick to the box, so instead of hosing them out I had to scrub them to get them clean.  I also found it did little to limit the ammonia smell of the boxes.

The aspen pellets take a while to compost.  They are basically sawdust, very high carbon, so they decompose slowly.  The pellets disintegrate as soon as you wet them, and since I mainly use my compost for mulch, I do not care that much if all of the sawdust has been broken down.  I just spread it on the soil and let the decomposition finish in place.

[poopy]

I just dump it in the Green trash (trees, foliage)….is that not ok? Haha, I just feel bad dumping it in the regular trash

[osprey]

Up here it is OK to put herbivore litter into the green yard waste recycling bins.

[MooBunnay]

All this talk of compost is making me want a house with a BIG backyard – hey! I live in Texas now – maybe I can afford one!

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