DO put these in your compost bin:

•Vegetable peelings
•Fruit peel and cores, juicer leftovers
•Grass clippings - in moderate amounts
•Twigs, hedge trimmings etc.
•Leaves
•Teabags and coffee grounds
•Pet and human hair
•Feathers
•Egg shells (crushed)
•Soft cardboard e.g. egg cartons, ripped into small pieces


DON'T put these in your compost bin:

•Branches (unless chipped, and then only in moderate amounts)
•Rocks, gravel, bricks, rubble
•Coal ash
•Human waste
•Dog and cat waste
•Diseased plants
•Cooked or baked foods
•Meat, raw or cooked
•Dairy waste
•Starchy food waste (bread etc.)
•Cat litter