Compost

Residents will be surprised to discover that it's not just fruit and vegetable peelings and garden prunings that can go in the compost bin, cardboard, eggshells and teabags make for great compost too.

    Around a third of the rubbish we produce can be composted at home, including:
  • Tea bags
  • Grass cuttings
  • Vegetable peelings (including lettuce and cabbage leaves)
  • A compost heapOld flowers
  • Fruit scraps (including citrus peel)
  • Nettles
  • Coffee grounds and filter paper
  • Spent bedding plants
  • Comfrey leaves
  • Rhubarb leaves
  • Young annual weeds (eg chickweed and speedwell)
  • Composting at homePond algae and seaweed (in moderation)
  • Garden prunings
  • Dry leaves, twigs and hedge clippings
  • Straw and hay
  • Bedding from vegetarian pets
  • Egg shells (crush them first to speed up composting)
  • Egg boxes
  • Cereal boxes
  • Newspaper (scrunched up)
  • Toilet and kitchen roll tubes
  • Corrugated cardboard packaging (scrunched up in small amounts)
  • Wool

Composters, Water Butts and Wormeries


Contacting Us

Epping Forest District Council
Civic Offices
High Street
Epping
Essex CM16 4BZ
Main switchboard
(01992) 564000

Main email address
ContactUs@eppingforestdc.gov.uk