What can go in a compost bin?

Answer 1

Good carbon (brown) layers: paper towels, paper bags, hair, coffee grounds, straw, napkins, paper from shreddder, fall leaves, dead lawn clippings (keep to a minimum so your layers do not get anerobic), soil, etc.
Make sure you shred paper as much as possible as it will break down faster...
Good Nitorgen (green) layers: fruit and vegetable waste, green lawn clipping (again keep very thin layers and to a minimum), raw fish waste, chicken, cow or other vegetable eating animal manure, egg shells, old bread, etc.
Layer thinly alternating green and brown. Avoid Meat and cooked seafood, heavy oils ( a lightly greasy papertowel is OK) and dairy. No meat eating animal feces. give it a light water to get the magic started and viola. Also all kinds of food.No noodles should be in compost!

Answer 2

Anything that is organic in composition, small in size, and uncontaminated by dairy products, greases, meats, oils, pathogens or toxins are items which can be put in a compost bin. The breakdown of carbon- and nitrogen-rich recyclables proceeds the fastest when air, heat, light, and moisture levels are respected and when items are trimmed down to a size which can be carried and moved around safely. Security also requires that nothing -- such as dairy products and meat -- be included to attract foraging wildlife.

Answer 3

What is good for the compost? it is what we call greens and browns. greens are Nitrogen/ protein rich things such as; fresh grass clipings, manure, klep meal, sea weed, crushed eggshells, sour milk, coffee grounds, basicly stuff that was just recently growing. Browns are carbon rich stuff such as straw, leaves, pine needles, cornstalks, sawdust, dry grass clippings, basically stuff hat is dead and dry. Stuff that can be both; fruit / vegetable peels and core, rotted wood, been and pea pods.

Bad Stuff for the compost? Diseased plants (they spread disease), weeds with seeds, weed that can sprout from bits of root, pet feces(carries parasites), biodegradable items (glass, treated wood), toxic chemicals, fats, oil, meat scraps, bones (slow at breaking down)

Answer 4

THINGS YOU CAN USE: Annual weeds, withered perennials or partly decomposed leaves and stems - coffee ground and tea leaves - eggshells - lawn mowings - manure - paper and card (torn into small pieces) - straw and hay - stable litter - spent potting compost - vacuum-cleaner dust (only from natural-fibre carpets and rugs) - vegetable peelings - shredded twigs and branches.

THINGS YOU SHOULD AVOID: Color magazines - detergents and chemical products - perennial weeds - scraps of food that might attract vermin - thick paper or cardboard - any plants treated with weedkiller, insecticide or other chemicals.

Answer 5

Anything that is biodegradable such as paper, lawn clipping, leaves, food scraps ect. but NOT bones or animal fats.

Answer 6

you can put yard waste ,fruit peelings,vegetable scraps and egg shells (must be crushed)

Answer 7

Almost anything organic that will decompose.

Answer 8

anything that is bio-degradable