Household and garden waste: what can be put on top of the compost?

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Instead of throwing everything away, it’s worth separating the waste for the environment and your own wallet. Small green compost bins are now found in many homes.

Valuable fertilizer for horticultural crops

If you have your own garden, you can also recycle your organic waste by composting. Compost is a valuable fertilizer for horticultural crops and can be converted into fertile, nutrient-rich humus-rich soil.

But not everything that goes into organic waste also goes into compost. This includes, for example, cooked or raw leftovers such as meat, sausage, bones, dairy products, baked goods or cooking oils. This waste can attract rats and mice.

Continuing on this compost:

• Leftover fruit and vegetables
• Kitchen and garden waste
• Tea and coffee grounds with filter paper
• chopped cut flowers and potted plants
• Small animal excrement from herbivores
• egg shells
• Tree and bush pruning
• Weeds (not in seed form)
• Watch out for weeds spreading among the runners!
• greenery
• Grass and grass clippings
• falling fruit
• tree needles
• Algae
• Soil obtained from potted and potted plants (no pests)

So the material can go to the compost

All waste must be treated before being sent to compost. This means: shred the compost material at the size of your thumb, crush hard-shell materials such as eggshells, and remove non-organic materials.

This should not be composted:

• Meat, fish, sausage

• cooked leftovers

• wood and coal ash

• tropical fruit peels

• Glass, ceramics, metals, plastics, plastic

• diapers

• cardboard and paper

• vacuum cleaner bags

• dog and cat feces

• diseased plants or plant parts

• root

• cigarette butts

• oils, fats, liquids

Source : Blick