Waste and Recycling

Home Composting

Up to 25 percent of the average bin is kitchen and garden waste which could be composted.

Home composting is a good way to divert your kitchen waste from landfill and is great for your garden!

Home composting can be an art, but one that you can learn

A wide range of material can be composted at home. Once broken down it can be used almost anywhere in the garden as a soil improver and to top up tubs, planters and baskets. If you’re a keen gardener you may want to join in with Newport in Bloom.

You can compost these…

Fast rotters	Slow rotters
Fruit waste	Crumpled cardboard
Raw vegetable peelings	Egg boxes
Teabags	Egg shells
Coffee Grounds	Cardboard inside of toilet/kitchen roll
Flowers	Woody prunings
Weeds	Plant stems/twigs
Hedge clippings	Autumn leaves
Grass clippings (not too many at once!)	Wood shavings
	Animal poo e.g. hamster/guinea pigs (herbivores – animals which eat grass, plants and seeds)

But not these…

Meat/fish/bones	Dairy products
Cooked/processed food	Coal ash
Cat/dog (carnivore) litter/poo	Roots of perennial weeds (e.g. dandelions, ground elder, bindweed, docks)

Buy a compost bin

Visit the Green Cone website to purchase a compost bin which can take most items including meat and dairy products or visit your local garden centre to buy a basic composter.