Save Our Planet
What Can I Compost?
Do
Do not
- All vegetable and fruit wastes
-Old bread, donuts, cookies, crackers, pizza crust, noodles…anything made out of flour!
- Grains
- Paper napkins
- Post-it notes
- Hay
- Leaves
- Herbs
- Plants
- Tea bags and coffee grinds
- Shredded newspaper
- Egg shells
- Cow manure
- Animal cage cleanings
- Shredded cardboard
- Leather wallets
- Lint from clothes dryer
- Wool socks
- Nail clippings
- Pencil shavings
- Latex rubber such as marigold gloves, hot water bottle and latex condoms
- Vacuum cleaner bag contents
- Animal fur
- Meat or meat waste (bones, fat, skin etc.)**
- Fish or fish waste**
- Dairy products – cheese, butter, cottage cheese, yogurt etc.**
-Grease and oils of any kind**
- And the list goes on and on!
**= a good idea with these products is freeze them up until your garbage day. That way it doesnt smell and attract animals!
-Recycling
-Anything inorganic
