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(I'm cross posting here since this effects almost all people keeping critters)
Huge piles of coconuts sit on the dirt in collection yards. There they are ripped apart. The shells mostly used to make charcoal, the fiber shoveled and dragged off to the side. After the fiber has dried in the sun for some time, accumulating all sorts of crap and debris, workers take armloads of the fiber and load it onto bundling platforms. On these platforms the trash, garbage and debris is removed and the fiber is compressed and recompressed and bundled into giant bales. These bales are so solidly compacted, sometimes using mechanical levers, sometimes cable pulls, sometimes even using crawlers tractors, that you could drive a heavy vehicle over them without making a dent.
The more responsible suppliers, or the ones who got caught too many times with the hand in the cookie jar, the fiber is spread out over the yard. I've seen several acres of fiber around ankle deep in these areas. Workers then spray pesticides on the fiber. What pesticides? The government approved certified ones of course. You know, those official people sitting in their offices with a desk drawer full of plain white envelopes casually placed on the edge of the desk by anyone who wants to wholesale chemicals in the country. Malathion, parathion, DDT, whatever. The thickness of the envelope is the deciding factor for approval.
Otherwise the bales are usually put in a warehouse type building and fumigated. Right. It is very unlikely a tungsten armor piercing projectile from a 155mm gun could penetrate those bales. Then they are loaded into the holds of ships. When received by retail outlets many months later the retailer checks, sees that the shipper claims the bales were fumigated and sells them as such. For those of you who swallow, buy this BS outright that all mites and other organisms have been killed, I've got some swamp land for sale a few miles west of San Francisco at a really cheap price. Title deeds written with crayons.
This same coconut fiber is also used in a number of other applications. Mattresses are commonly stuffed with it. Again, 'treated', inspected and certified pest free for shipping all over the world. I bought one of those mattresses which started a 10 year long itching bugfest. But why don't I let the label of one of those mattresses speak for the quality of the coconut fiber it contains and the rigorous testing and certification processes:
"Was admitted from the people. It's was produced from special polyurethane foam coconut of quality. As best material use in made."
(Feel free to translate this for me. I'm still scratching my head for various reasons.)
Huge piles of coconuts sit on the dirt in collection yards. There they are ripped apart. The shells mostly used to make charcoal, the fiber shoveled and dragged off to the side. After the fiber has dried in the sun for some time, accumulating all sorts of crap and debris, workers take armloads of the fiber and load it onto bundling platforms. On these platforms the trash, garbage and debris is removed and the fiber is compressed and recompressed and bundled into giant bales. These bales are so solidly compacted, sometimes using mechanical levers, sometimes cable pulls, sometimes even using crawlers tractors, that you could drive a heavy vehicle over them without making a dent.
The more responsible suppliers, or the ones who got caught too many times with the hand in the cookie jar, the fiber is spread out over the yard. I've seen several acres of fiber around ankle deep in these areas. Workers then spray pesticides on the fiber. What pesticides? The government approved certified ones of course. You know, those official people sitting in their offices with a desk drawer full of plain white envelopes casually placed on the edge of the desk by anyone who wants to wholesale chemicals in the country. Malathion, parathion, DDT, whatever. The thickness of the envelope is the deciding factor for approval.
Otherwise the bales are usually put in a warehouse type building and fumigated. Right. It is very unlikely a tungsten armor piercing projectile from a 155mm gun could penetrate those bales. Then they are loaded into the holds of ships. When received by retail outlets many months later the retailer checks, sees that the shipper claims the bales were fumigated and sells them as such. For those of you who swallow, buy this BS outright that all mites and other organisms have been killed, I've got some swamp land for sale a few miles west of San Francisco at a really cheap price. Title deeds written with crayons.
This same coconut fiber is also used in a number of other applications. Mattresses are commonly stuffed with it. Again, 'treated', inspected and certified pest free for shipping all over the world. I bought one of those mattresses which started a 10 year long itching bugfest. But why don't I let the label of one of those mattresses speak for the quality of the coconut fiber it contains and the rigorous testing and certification processes:
"Was admitted from the people. It's was produced from special polyurethane foam coconut of quality. As best material use in made."
(Feel free to translate this for me. I'm still scratching my head for various reasons.)
