All Food Waste
- Vegetable scraps and peels, corn cobs and husks
- Fruit cores, pits, peels
- Meat, poultry, fish, shellfish (including bones)
- Pasta, bread, grains, cereals, rice, flour
- Dairy products, eggs (including shells)
- Nuts, nutshells
- Baked goods, desserts
Other
- Coffee grounds, filters, tea bags
- Newspaper
- Toilet Paper Roles
- Paper napkins, paper towels, tissues
- Soiled, non-coated/unlined paper plates and bags (e.g. from flour and sugar)
- House plants, including soil
- Pet waste, bedding, cat litter
What’s Not Excepted
Recycling
- Plastic bags (soft and stretchy)
- Plastic food containers and cutlery (black and compostable plastic is garbage)
- Aluminum pie plates, trays, roasting pans
- Foam polystyrene meat/fish trays (absorbent pads are garbage)
Garbage
- Feminine hygiene products
- Plastic bags (rigid and crinkly)
- Plastic-lined paper packaging (e.g. single-serve oatmeal packs, some outer tea bags)
- Stand-up pouches
- Plastic food wrap (stretchy)
- Meat/fish tray absorbent pads
- Hot and cold drink cups
- Aluminum foil wrap
- Chopsticks, popsicle sticks, toothpicks
- Cotton balls, cotton tipped swabs, make-up pads, dental floss, baby wipes, dryer sheets
- Gum, wax, wine corks, vacuum bags/contents
- Cigarette butts
