Waste and Recycling
Green Waste
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 www.wasteawarescotland.org.uk 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