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One of the largest contributors to home-based composting piles is kitchen waste. Scraps from meal preparations as well as cooking supplies can be added to a compost bin and, in turn, contribute to your soil and mulch.

Composting guides generally sort matter into two categories, according to what they contribute to the process; green (nitrogen) and brown (carbon).

A lot of kitchen items are perfect for your pile. Here are just some of the more prevalent compostables from each meal of the day. To view the rest of this list, visit Plantea.com.

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Breakfast

Apple cores
Banana peels
Burned toast
Coffee grounds
Date pits
Egg shells
Grapefruit rinds
Oatmeal (cooked or raw)
Outdated yogurt
Stale or soggy breakfast cereal
Sunday comics
Tea bags and grounds
Soy milk
Watermelon rinds

Lunch

Brown paper bags
Chocolate cookies
Freezer-burned fruit
Fruit salad
Peanut butter sandwiches
Peanut and other nut shells
Pickles
Popcorn
Pumpkin seeds
Stale potato chips

Read: 5 Ways to Pack a Zero Waste Lunch

Photo: Alexandra Vietti, Earth911

Dinner

Artichoke leaves
Cooked rice
Corncobs
Fish scraps, such as shrimp shells, crab shells and lobster shells
Freezer-burned vegetables
Jell-o
Old pasta
Olive pits
Onion skins
Pie crust
Potato peelings
Produce trimmings
Rhubarb stems
Seaweed and kelp
Spoiled canned fruits and vegetables
Stale bread and bread crusts
Tofu
Tossed salad

Supplies

Cardboard cereal boxes
Expired flower arrangements
Grocery receipts
Shredded cardboard
Matches (paper or wood)
Old spices
Paper napkins
Paper towels
Shredded newspapers
Wood chips and ashes
Wooden toothpicks

10 Things in Your Kitchen You Didn’t Know You Could Reuse or Recycle

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Compost Council Launches Site That Connects Buyers and Sellers

by greenenergy4 Posted on March 5, 2013

Locally sourced compost is at the center of buy-compost.com’s model. Photo: Flickr

In the last few years, composting has become a profitable business. You can buy compost from big box stores, but one organization thinks the best compost for your backyard comes from your neighbor’s.

That’s why the U.S. Composting Council has launched buy-compost.com, a site that connects compost buyers with sellers in their own neighborhood via an interactive map, which highlights sellers in your zip code within a 125 mile radius.

Both small scale consumers and “prosumers,” like landscapers, nursery workers and other industry professional can use the site to locate healthy, local compost.

Sellers have also committed to donating compost to community gardens all around the country. This month, the council will launch the Million Tomato Compost Campaign – an effort combined with chefs and community gardens throughout the U.S. to grow one million tomatoes using donated compost.

“The Million Tomato Compost Campaign spreads the word that compost is a key component to building the healthy soil needed to grow sustainable, local food that helps build healthy communities,” the council says on its website.

Many chefs have agreed to help educate their communities, including schools and nonprofits, on how to grow their own sustainable food. Chef Nathan Lyon, host of Discovery Health’s local food-focused A Lyon in the Kitchen, will act as the face of the Million Tomato campaign.