You can NOT compost the following items:
- Aluminum foil (recycle!)
- Animal or human waste (no poop)
- Aquarium water or sludge
- Batteries (recycle!)
- Broken glass
- Buckets
- Candles, crayons, wax
- CD-DVDs
- Charcoal ash
- Chemicals
- Cigarette butts
- Coal
- Cosmetics
- Dangerous items
- Dead animals
- Diapers
- Diseased plants
- Electronics (recycle!)
- E-waste
- Foil wrappers and shiny packaging
- Glass bottles (recycle!)
- Glossy, slick colored paper (recycle!)
- Herbicides
- Inorganic materials (polyester, acrylic, rubber, etc.)
- Invasive plants
- Kitty litter
- Magazines
- Medical waste
- Medicine (special disposal!)
- Metal cans (recycle!)
- Newspaper (recycle!)
- Non-compostable waste
- Packaging from toxics
- Paint
- Paper (recycle!)
- Paperware (with plastic lining, wax ok)
- Pernicious, invasive weeds
- Pesticides
- Plastic bags (recycle!)
- Plastic bottles and boxes (recycle!)
- Plastic cups
- Plastics
- Poisonous plants
- Razor blades
- Recyclables
- Rubber bands
- Soiled bandages
- Tissues (used)
- Toxics
- Treated woods
- Tube lights
- Twist ties
- Wood ash