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| Compost at home |
What can I compost?
| YES - compost this |
NO - don't compost this |
- Grass
- Hedge trimmings
- Dead flowers
- Cut flowers
- Pond weed
- Some weeds
- Apple cores and banana skins
- Vegetable and fruit peelings
- Small amounts of bread
- Tea bags, tea leaves and coffee grinds
- Vacuum cleaner dust
- Sawdust
- Animal bedding from vegetarian animals
- Animal droppings from vegetarian animals
- Leaves
- Egg shells
- Kitchen towels
- Scrunched up or shredded paper (great for adding air spaces too)
- Ripped up cardboard
- Paper eggboxes (great for adding air spaces too)
- Old bedding plants
- Horse manure (great activator!)
- Small amounts of BBQ or woodfire ash (when COLD!!!)
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- Cooked Food
- Dog and Cat waste
- Metal
- Plastic
- Glass
- Tins and cans
- Meat and bones
- Fish remains
- Really woody sticks, logs, or large timbers
- Rubble and stones
- Coal ash
- Diseased materials
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What is Green Stuff and Brown Stuff?
| Green Stuff is high in nitrogen |
Brown Stuff is high in carbon |
- Grass clippings
- Fruit and Vegetable waste
- Soft weeds, prunings and pondweed
- Animal droppings from vegetarian pets such as rabbits
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- Paper and cardboard
- Straw and hay
- Kitchen towels
- Egg boxes
- Woody hedge trimmings
- Tough woody plants
- Old leaves
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What can I feed to a wormery?
| YES! - feed these to your worms |
NO! - Don't feed these to your worms |
- Fruit and veg peelings
- Banana peel
- Coffee grounds and filters
- Tea bags
- Small amounts of newspaper and cardboard
- Small amounts of bread
- Small amounts of meat scraps occasionally
- Small amounts of citrus fruit peel
- Small amounts of onion or garlic
- Leaves from houseplants
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- Garden waste (cuttings, grass etc - better on a compost heap)
- Too much strong food such as onion, chillie, garlic and citrus peel
- Dairy products
- Large amounts of meat
- Fish
- Animal droppings
- Vacuum cleaner dust
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What can I put in a Digester?
| Digesters WILL take |
Digesters DON'T take |
- Any kitchen scraps
- Meat scraps and bones
- Plate scrapings
- Fish
- Bread
- Dairy Products
- Fruit and vegetable scraps
- Small amounts of pet droppings, but not regularly
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- Any NON FOOD substance except if listed on the right
- Garden waste (compost it instead)
- Plastic, glass, metal or lumps of wood
- Any type of ash
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