| Garlic or onions? How about avocado, ginger, or soft fruits like watermelon and citrus? Is it safe to compost eggshells? What about tea bags? The answer to these questions is – yes. You can also throw mouldy and stale foods into your heap fur, hair and fingernail clippings. You can also add paper napkins and kitchen towels [ provided they have not been used to clean up chemical wastes]. Cooked foodstuffs like pizza, fish and chips, pasta, curry, and Chinese takeaway can easily be added to a hot compost pile. The shells of pistachio nuts, Brazil, almonds, pecans, cashews, and peanuts are also compostable. Stale beers, wines, breads, cheeses, crackers, and cereals can all be thrown into the heap. Even your pee can be utilised, but not so much your poo, although this can be composted using a different method. All non-glossy cards and paper can also be added alongside sticky notes, envelopes, receipts, old bills, and bank statements. Remember to remove the envelope window. You can either tear the paper and card up or shred it. Quite often, people are astonished at just how much you CAN compost. There are many, many more items. The above are a handful of frequently asked questions, but guess what? You can also compost the bedding and droppings from your rats, rabbits, chinchillas, hamsters, gerbils, and guinea pigs. Feathers can be added. The more you work and experiment with compost, the more you realise that there is way more than you might have imagined that can be composted. So can l compost THESE?? There is a good chance that the answer is yes! Yes, you can! |
Expand Your Composting Horizons: Unusual Materials to Compost
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Wow! I had no idea some of the items you mentioned could be added to a compost.
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Oh composting can be amazing Eugenia 🙂
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