Composting

Composting at home

Zero Waste Scotland provide an easy guide to composting at home.

What to compost

Greens

• Cut flowers
• Egg shells
• Fruit scraps and vegetable peelings
• Garden and house plants
• Tea bags/leaves and coffee grounds
• Grass cuttings
• Annual weeds

Browns

• Bedding from pet cages
• Chopped garden prunings
• Hedge trimmings
• Hay and straw
• Shredded paper
• Torn cardboard
• Feathers
• Woodchippings and sawdust

For best results compost a 50/50 mix of greens and browns. For more information please visit Zero Waste Scotland or call the composting helpline on 0845 0760223.

What not to compost

• Meat and fish scraps
• Cooked food scraps
• Dog and cat litter
• Diseased plants and persistent weeds i.e. bind weed
• Coal or coke ash (small amount of wood ash is ok)
• Large unchopped woody branches
• Bones
• Dairy products
• Nappies
• Glass
• Plastic
• Metal