Home composting

What Can I Compost?

If you get the mix of your composting materials just right it will return you with some great compost.

Ideally you should have a mix of 'Green' and 'Brown' materials. Just Green or Brown materials will not compost on their own.

Please see below for some suggestions of what Greens and Browns you can add to your composter.

Greens
Tea bags Grass cuttings Vegetable Peelings Fruit scraps (including citrus fruits) Old Flowers	Nettles (young nettles are an excellent natural accelerator to speed up the composting process) Coffee grounds & filter paper	Spent bedding Comfrey leaves Young annual weeds Rhubarb leaves Pond algae & seaweed

Browns
Egg shells Egg boxes Cereal boxes Corrugated cardboard packaging (scrunch up into small amounts) Newspapers (scrunch up into small amounts) Toilet & kitchen roll tubes Garden prunings Dry leaves, twigs & hedge clippings Straw & hay Wool	Bedding from vegetarian pets Feathers Ashes from wood, paper or lumpwood charcoal Woody clippings Cotton threads String (mage from natural fibres) Tumble dry lint (from natural fibre clothes) Old natural fibre clothes (eg. Wooly jumpers or cotton t-shirts cut up into small pieces)	Vacuum bag contents (if you have natural fibre carpets) Tissues, paper towels & napkins (unless they have been in contact with meat, fats oils or disease) Shreedded confidential documents Corn cobs & stalks Pine needles & cones (slow to compost - don't put too much in) Paper bags