Printable List Of Compost Items

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Printable list of compost items. Egg shells crushed b. Red wigglers are the most popular worms to use for composting kitchen scraps. There are other things you can add such as cleaned egg shells coffee grounds paper bags and more. A hot compost pile breaks down yard.

May contain materials bad for plants. The general things that you can always trust to compost include fruit and vegetable trimmings leaves and grass clippings. Ashes from untreated unpainted wood. Tea bags make sure they are made of natural materials like hemp or cotton.

Used paper napkins and paper towels. Loose leaf tea g. All forms of kitchen waste can be composted but you might want to skip composting meat dairy and fats. Things that have carbon are tree trimmings branches dried leaves paper sawdust corn stalks egg shells wood ash.

Bury within compost pile. Can make the pile too alkaline and suppress composting. Nitrogen ditto for your fingernails and toenails. If you truly want to compost your meat scraps consider a bokashi compost bin system.

Of the things you compost some are carbon based and some are nitrogen based. Nitrogen you can just toss these into the compost. These items will eventually break down but take much longer. Dryer and vacuum cleaner lint.

The microbes found in the soil and yard materials are the workhorses of the compost pile. Basically you can compost anything that can decompose but also won t potentially hurt you. Carbon it is recommended to rip up or wet before adding to compost. Give them a mix of brown and green materials water and oxygen and the microbes will multiply heat your pile and help it decompose faster.

Bury in compost pile. Leaves trees and bushes yes. Great source of nitrogen. The pile may reach 140 f or more.

They can eat up to their body weight in food each day so 1 lb of worms will compost 1 lb of food scraps each day and they quickly multiply. Great source of nitrogen. Coffee grounds and filters. And these items are guaranteed to smell bad and attract flies rodents and other unwanted pests.

Spoiled soy rice almond coconut milk g. Cotton and wool rags. To have a healthy compost you need more carbon than nitrogen. Animal manure from herbivores not meat eaters like dogs or cats cardboard rolls cereal boxes brown paper bags.