Most plant-based kitchen and yard waste can go in a home compost pile.
Usually yes
- Fruit and vegetable scraps
- Coffee grounds and paper filters
- Eggshells
- Leaves, grass and plant trimmings
- Plain paper and cardboard
Keep out of home piles
- Meat, fish, bones and dairy
- Oils and greasy food
- Dog and cat waste
- Diseased plants
- Plants treated with herbicides
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