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What to put in your compost bin

12 Feb What to put in your compost bin

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Greens  banana

Quick to rot and provide important nitrogen and moisture.

  • Tea bags
  • Grass cutting
  • Vegetable peelings, salad leaves and fruit scraps
  • Old flowers and nettles
  • Coffee grounds and filter paper
  • Spent bedding plants
  • Rhubarb leaves
  • Young annual weeds
    (e.g. chickweed)

Brownspaper

Slower to rot, provide carbon & fiber and allow air pockets to form.

  • Cardboard
  • Egg boxes
  • Scrunched up paper
  • Fallen leaves
  • Sawdust
  • Twigs, branches and bark

KEEP OUT!  cheese

Certain things should never be placed in your bin.

  • Meat
  • Cooked vegetables
  • Dairy products
  • Diseased plants
  • Dog poo or cat litter
  • Nappies
  • Perennial weeds or weeds with seed heads

Find out more here for composting tips and advice!