This is certainly an option. There aren't millions of them in there, but they seem to be not just at the top but way down too. I don't cook with sugar much these days. I suppose I could add it to fruit and make jam and just forget about the bugs. If I lived in Africa or some other impoverished region, or gave it to someone there I'm sure they would eat it.
I would like to but they are so tiny, they are probably less than 5% the length of a small sugar ant. Incredibly small insects.Pics of bugs?
My compost pile is ~ 35 feet from the back of the house, maybe far enough away. The pile is really big. I haven't turned it. I could get out there and move it to the side, dump the sugar and cover it up, probably a reasonably OK solution, and the turning of the pile is smart. Yeah, I like your thinking about flushing being smarter than throwing the container in the trash. Then I can recycle the container. :thumbsup: I'll do that anyway if I turn the compost pile on top of the spread-out sugar. One of my projects for this week.Bury it in your compost pile. I only get animal, insect and odor problems when the fresh stuff is thrown on top of the pile. There is already plenty of stuff in your compost pile that attracts bugs, ants etc... and sugar is no different than the organics in there already. I bury veggies and all kinds of food in my pile and never had an ant problem. Mine is also far away from my house...
Otherwise flush it, it will become feedstock for the bacteria the sewage treatment plant uses to digest the effluent
It's amazing what organisms can survive in. I don't remember seeing anything living in pure sugar before. I think there are organisms that can live in boiling temperature water.never seen anything alive in sugar before. i would think it would dessicate the shit out of whatever decided to live there.
Cool, thanks!I texted my environmental engineer friend (she consults for a waste disposal company) and she said NOT to flush it, but to throw it away as solid waste. Didn't get an explanation other than its a common question.
This is certainly an option. There aren't millions of them in there, but they seem to be not just at the top but way down too. I don't cook with sugar much these days. I suppose I could add it to fruit and make jam and just forget about the bugs. If I lived in Africa or some other impoverished region, or gave it to someone there I'm sure they would eat it.
If so you could simply sift them out.
In college, the campus apartments had little ants due to the sandy soil. I remember a neighbor had his sugar attacked in his pantry. He got so mad he went to the gas station and came back with a cup of gasoline. He dumped the sugar on the sidewalk, splashed it with gas and ran a small trail for a fuse. You could hear little screams as it burned and smell caramelized sugar for days.
My compost pile is ~ 35 feet from the back of the house, maybe far enough away. The pile is really big. I haven't turned it. I could get out there and move it to the side, dump the sugar and cover it up, probably a reasonably OK solution, and the turning of the pile is smart. Yeah, I like your thinking about flushing being smarter than throwing the container in the trash. Then I can recycle the container. :thumbsup: I'll do that anyway if I turn the compost pile on top of the spread-out sugar. One of my projects for this week.