40 Things You Can Compost

1. Fruit and vegetable scraps

2. grass

3. Egg shells (crushed)

4. Coffee grounds

5. Coffee filters

6. Tea bags (Make sure they are made of natural materials like hemp or cotton, and not rayon or other synthetics. If in doubt, just open it and compost the tea leaves alone.)

7. Loose leaf tea

8. Used paper napkins and paper towels

9. Unwaxed cardboard pizza boxes (ripped or cut into small pieces)

10. Paper bags (shredded)

11. Cooked pasta

12. Cooked rice

13. Crumbs from the bottom of snack food packaging

14. Paper towel rolls (shredded)

15. Cardboard boxes from cereal, pasta, etc. (Remove any plastic windows and shred)

16. Used paper plates (as long as they don’t have a waxy coating)

17. Unpopped, burnt popcorn kernels

18. Old herbs and spices

19. Toothpicks

20. Bamboo skewers (break them into pieces)

21. Paper cupcake or muffin cups

22. 100% cotton cotton balls

23. Cotton swabs made from 100% cotton and cardboard (not plastic) sticks

24. Pine needles

25. Leaves

26. Potato peelings

27. House plant trimmings

28. Spanish moss

29. Fish parts

30. Burnt toast

31. Corn husks

32. Dead headed flowers

33. Chopped up small branches and twigs

34. Saw dust from untreated wood

35. Wood chips

36. Pine cones

37. Left over bedding from chickens 

38. Sea weed and Kelp

39. Mail (non glossy)

40. Wood ashes