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How long does it take to decompose things?

Paper towel 2-4 week
Banana peel 3-4 weeks
Paper Bag 1 month
Newspaper 1.5 months
Apple Core 2 months
Cardboard 2 months
Cotton Glove 3 months
Orange Peels 6 months
Plywood 1-3 years
Wool Sock 1-5 years
Milk Cartons 5 years
Cigarette Butts 10-12 years
Leather shoes 25-40 years
Tinned Steel Can 50 years
Foamed Plastic cups 50 years
Rubber Boot sole 50-80 years
Plastic Containers 50-80 years
Aluminum can 200-500 years
Plastic Bottles 450 years
Disposable Diapers 550 years
Monofilament fishing line 600 years
Plastic Bags 200-1000 years

BIODEGRADABLE
Egg Shells: depends on the thickness and size of the egg
- chicken egg takes about 2 weeks on soil

HUMAN BODY
► 1 hour after death the body loses 2 degrees of temperature, then every hour after that it will lose  one more degree of temperature until it is the temperature of the environment it is in.

► After 3 hours of death the body becomes stiff. It will reach its full stiffness after 12 hours.

► Livor Mortis happens within 6-12 hours, it is where all the blood  in the body sink down to gravity. The pattern of lividity can help medical professionals know the initial position of the body when the person died and if the body has been removed around afterward.

► 3 days after death the body becomes soft again as it slowly decomposes

► After four days of death liquid forms out of the body

► 2 weeks the moisture in the body are lost and

► The darker the flesh the longer the body's been dead

► Corpse are  preserved longer when buried deeper as long as the ground is not waterlogged.

► Flies will arrive within 1/2 an hour  of death
- flies inside  the body lays eggs and 24 hours later the eggs produce these slithering-flesh eating insects called maggots
- when the maggots had reached 15mm in length, they've been fed for more than 1 week


Hair - Depending on the weather condition and where the body is stored in 50 to 365 days after death moths and bacteria consumed the hair

Claws and fingernails - are made of calcium carbonate or similar compounds

Brain cells die within 3-7 minutes

Skin Cells can be taken from a dead body for up to 24 hours after death and still grow normally ina laboratory culture

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