What does not go in garden compost?

Answer 1

any non biodegradbles like plastics and metals. you should also avoid milk and meat products, while they can compost before they do they will attract wild animals and smell badly. you should also avoid human and meat eating feces (like dogs) cos they may contain diseases which you dont want to spread around.

Answer 2

Colored newsprint. Dairy products. Grease and oil. Meat. Treated wood. Weeds and weed seeds. Whatever should go to hazardous material collection sites such as oil-based paints and toxic materials.

Answer 3

Glass, Cardboard, Egg shells, Hair, Small Children and Hamsters should all stay out. Just put decomposable kitchen waste, grass and animal waste from vegatarian animals. Also put worms, slugs, and snails in as these will help decomposition and when they die they will also decompose.

Answer 4

Theoretically, all organic matter will rot, and can go into a compost bin.

In practice, one may wish to avoid meat, and meat by-products because they tend to attract vermin, and stink. So no meat, or large quantities of grease. Large chunks of wood, and branches, although they will compost, take many years to compost down to usable soil, so should be avoided in the typical residential compost bin or compost heap.

Other than that, just about any lawn or garden waste, or leaves, twigs, and very small branches (no bigger around than your little finger) will compost nicely in the typical residential compost bin in a few months up to a year.

Also, add kitchen scraps and coffee grounds, including the filter, fruit peals, and other kitchen non-meat waste. To speed the composting process, chop any larger item into small pieces. Larger branches and limbs should be shredded before they are composted.

A good compost needs lots of oxygen and moisture. Regular turning (mixing) of the compost will speed the process.

When possible mix different types of items - a large pile of grass clippings will likely mat together and not compost as well as the same pile of grass clippings would if mixed with some dried leaves.

Check with any local ordinances that limit certain items before starting to compost. Chicago, for instance requests that potatoes, and beans are not composted, because they attract some vermin.

You can use a bin, or simply make a compost heap in an out of the way corner of your property.

The best location is far enough away from your home to avoid any potential unpleasant smells or vermin, but close enough to be convenient to use - especially is you are considering sending your kitchen waste to compost.

Answer 5

Contaminated, diseased, toxic materials as well as dairy, greasy, and oily foods are what do not go into the compost container or heap. Materials which are larger than hand-size or which do not decompose within a year likewise have no place in compost bins or piles.

Answer 6

any biodegradable material such as manure, lawn clippings, leaves, flowers, paper, food scraps, magazines, cardboard, ect.

Answer 7

non-organic materials or meat scraps