Food waste

• If your local authority has given you a 'kitchen caddy' to collect food waste, you can usually recycle any cooked or raw food scraps.
• Make sure you remove all packaging from your food waste, especially plastic.

You can add the following items of food waste to your compost:

• Fruit and vegetable peelings, seeds and cores
• Tea bags
• Coffee grounds and filter papers
• Paper towels or tissues (not if they have touched meat)
• Egg shells

You cannot compost: fish, meat or dairy products.

Compost at home