You can compost the following items:

  • Alfalfa pellets
  • Apple cores
  • Banana peels
  • Bones of fish, chicken and meat
  • Bread
  • Brown paper bags
  • Cardboard (that you can’t recycle)
  • Carrot tops
  • Cauliflower stalks
  • Cheese
  • Chop Sticks (wood)
  • Citrus fruits
  • Cloth paper
  • Coconut husk and shell
  • Coffee grounds and filters
  • Compostable kitchenware
  • Compostable plastics
  • Cooked food
  • Corks
  • Corn on the cob
  • Cotton materials (rags, clothing, etc.)
  • Cup sleeves
  • Dairy waste (butter, cheese, yogurt)
  • Dryer lint
  • Egg shells
  • Eggs
  • Fabric, thread, ribbon (natural materials)
  • Feathers
  • Fish
  • Fish emulsion fertilizer
  • Flowers
  • Food cooked in oil
  • Freezer-burned foods
  • Fruit and vegetable scraps (peels, cores, seeds, stems, rinds, etc.)
  • Fruits and vegetables
  • Garden litter & sweepings
  • Grains (pasta, bread, rice, cereal, etc)
  • Hair clippings
  • Hemp materials
  • Houseplant trimmings
  • Human and animal hair
  • Indoor sweepings
  • Leather
  • Leaves (dried or fresh)
  • Lime
  • Mango and tamarind seeds
  • Meat
  • Nail clippings
  • Napkins
  • Nut shells
  • Nuts & seeds
  • Onion or garlic
  • Orange peels
  • Paper plates
  • Paper to-go packaging
  • Paper towels
  • Paper ware (with wax lining)
  • Pasta
  • Pencil shavings
  • Pine needles
  • Pineapple head and skin
  • Pits (Large pits from fruits/avacado)
  • Pizza and pizza boxes
  • Powdered milk
  • Rice
  • Rotten eggs
  • Rotten vegetables
  • Sawdust
  • Seaweed or kelp
  • Shells from seafood
  • Silk materials
  • Soap bits (organic only)
  • Stalks, roots
  • String
  • Sugar cane
  • Tamarind pulp
  • Tea bags (remove metal staples)
  • Tea leaves
  • Tissue paper
  • Tomatoes
  • Vacuum bag contents (Remove plastic, metal, or glass)
  • Watermelon rinds
  • Wax paper
  • Wool
  • Yard debris (what fits in your bin(s) only)