What You Can Compost
Put These in Your Compost Bin
- Egg shells (crushed)
- Feathers
- Fruit peel and cores, juicer leftovers
- Grass clippings in moderate amounts
- Leaves
- Pet and human hair
- Soft cardboard such as egg cartons, ripped into small pieces
- Teabags and coffee grounds
- Twigs, hedge trimmings
- Vegetable peelings
Do Not Put These in Your Compost Bin
- Branches, unless chipped, and then only in moderate amounts
- Cat litter
- Coal ash
- Cooked or baked foods
- Dairy waste
- Diseased plants
- Dog and cat waste
- Human waste
- Meat, raw or cooked
- Rocks, gravel, bricks, rubble
- Starchy food waste (bread etc.)
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