WHAT TO COMPOST (print list)

(yes please)

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From your kitchen

• Fruit and vegetable scraps

• Egg shells (crushed)

• Coffee grounds

• Coffee filters

• Tea bags (hemp or cotton) minus staples

• Loose leaf tea

• Spoiled soy/rice/almond/coconut milk

• Used paper napkins and paper towels

• Unwaxed cardboard pizza boxes (ripped or cut into small pieces)

• Paper bags (shredded)

• The crumbs you sweep off of the counters and floors

• Cooked pasta

• Cooked rice

• Stale bread, pitas, or tortillas

• Stale tortilla chips or potato chips

• Spoiled pasta sauce or tomato paste

• Crumbs from the bottom of snack food packaging

• Stale crackers

• Stale cereal

• Nut shells (except for walnut shells, which are toxic to plants)

• Spoiled tofu and tempeh

• Seaweed, kelp or nori

• Unpopped, burnt popcorn kernels

• Old herbs and spices

• Stale pretzels

• Stale protein or “energy” bars

• Pizza crusts

• Old oatmeal

• Peanut shells

• Cardboard egg cartons (cut them up)

• Stale pumpkin, sunflower or sesame seeds (chopped up so they can’t sprout)

• Avocado pits (chopped up so they don’t sprout)

• Wine corks (chop up so they decompose faster)

• Old jelly, jam, or preserves

• Stale beer and wine

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Around the House

• “Dust bunnies” from wood and tile floors

• Contents of your dustpan (pick out any inorganic stuff, like pennies and Legos)

• Crumbs from under your couch cushions (again, pick out any inorganic stuff)

• Newspapers (shredded or torn into smaller pieces)

• Burlap sacks (cut or torn into small pieces)

• Old rope and twine (chopped, natural, unwaxed only)

• Leaves trimmed from houseplants

• Dead houseplants and their soil

• Flowers from floral arrangements

• Natural potpourri

• Wood ash

• Dead autumn leaves

• Jack O’lanterns (smashed)

• Those hay bales you used as part of your outdoor fall decor (broken apart)

• Natural holiday wreaths (chop up with pruners first)

• Christmas trees (chop up with pruners first, or use a wood chipper, if you have one…)

• Evergreen garlands (chop up with pruners first)

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WHAT NOT TO COMPOST

(no thanks)

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Meat & Bones*

Dairy

Weeds/Dandelions

Chemicals

Animal/pet waste

Human waste

Metals

Glass

Diapers

Any inorganic materials

Brush & Lumber

Plastics and Styrofoam

Compostable Forks, Knives, Spoons and Cups*

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We are working our way up to be able to break these down, but our process currently does not support.