Compost with Covid?

[Anonymous]

We have a compost we use for vegetable garden and flowers. We stopped composting when we realized we had Covid, but there is probably a week if compost that had our Covid germs on it. Is this a problem? Should we dispose of it in the trash? Sorry if this is a simple question, but we are new relatively to composting and not sure if this is a real problem or not. Thanks for any guidance.

[Anonymous]

Not a problem, compost away. The virus doesn’t live that long outside of people. As long as whoever picks it up doesn’t immediately eat the apple core you just finished!

[Anonymous]

Thanks so much. Appreciate the guidance. Love this forum group. Very helpful. Especially for new gardeners. Thanks!

[Anonymous]

It should really be treated as infectious medical waste and disposed of accordingly for incineration. That would be proper, legal way to dispose of covid contaminated articles. Composting it might re-expose you later, and it’s possible that the covid germs might mutate or combine with something else while they’re composting and become an even more dangerous strain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It should really be treated as infectious medical waste and disposed of accordingly for incineration. That would be proper, legal way to dispose of covid contaminated articles. Composting it might re-expose you later, and it’s possible that the covid germs might mutate or combine with something else while they’re composting and become an even more dangerous strain.

Hmm, maybe burn the house down after having covid? After all, it's contaminated, right?