South Ayrshire Council
Waste Management
and Recycling
Burns House
Burns Statue Square,
Ayr KA7 1UT

Customer Services
Tel: 0845 601 2020
cst@south-ayrshire.gov.uk

What to Compost...

• Greens
  • Cut flowers
  • Egg shells
  • Fruit scraps and Vegetable peelings
  • Garden & 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
  • Leaves
  • Feathers
  • Woodchippings & Sawdust

For best results compost a mixture of browns and greens and a mixture of kitchen and garden waste.

What NOT to put in your Compost Bin...

• 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