Compostable Materials - Mantis Garden Tools...Post-it notes Potato peelings Produce trimmings...

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Visit us online @ mantis.com © 2020 Schiller Grounds Care, Inc. All Rights Reserved Compostable Materials Common and Not-So Common Compostable Materials Alfalfa Animal fur Apple cores Aquarium plants Artichoke leaves Banana peels Bee droppings Beet wastes Bird cage cleanings Blood meal Bone meal Bread crusts Brown paper bags Burlap coffee bags Burned oatmeal Burned toast Cardboard cereal boxes Cattail reeds Chocolate cookies Citrus wastes Clover Coconut hull fiber Coffee grounds Cooked rice Cover crops Crab shells Date pits Dead bees and flies Egg shells Electric razor trimmings Elmer’s glue Expired flower arrangements Feathers Felt waste Fingernail and toenail clippings Fish bones Fish meal Flower petals Freezer-burned food (non-meat) Fruit salad Garden soil Grape wastes Grapefruit rinds Grass clippings Greeting card envelopes Grocery receipts Guinea pig cage cleanings Hair clippings from the barber Hay Hog manure Hoof and horn meal Horse hair Houseplant trimmings Ivory soap scraps Jell-o (gelatin) Kitchen wastes Kleenex tissues Leaves Limestone Lint from clothes dryer Liquid from canned fruit Liquid from canned vegetables Lobster shells Manure – from vegetarian animals Melted ice cream Milk (in small amounts) Moss Nut shells Old leather gardening gloves Old or outdated seeds Old pasta Old spices Old, dried up and faded herbs Old canned fruits and vegetables Olive pits Onion skins Outdated yogurt Paper Paper napkins Paper towels Pea vines Peanut butter sandwiches Peanut shells Peat moss (in small amounts) Pencil shavings Pet hair Pickles Pie crust Pine needles Popcorn Post-it notes Potato peelings Produce trimmings Pumpkin seeds Q-tips (cardboard, only) Quail eggs Rhubarb stems River mud Sawdust (in small amounts) Seaweed and kelp Shredded cardboard Shredded newspapers Shrimp shells Soggy Cheerios Soy milk Spanish moss Stale bread Stale breakfast cereal Stale potato chips Straw Tea bags and grounds Theater tickets Toenail clippings Tofu Tossed salad Vacuum cleaner bag contents Watermelon rinds Wedding bouquets Weeds Wheat bran Winter rye Wood ashes (in small amounts) Wood chips Wooden toothpicks

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Compostable MaterialsCommon and Not-So Common Compostable MaterialsAlfalfaAnimal furApple coresAquarium plantsArtichoke leavesBanana peelsBee droppingsBeet wastesBird cage cleaningsBlood mealBone mealBread crustsBrown paper bagsBurlap coffee bagsBurned oatmealBurned toastCardboard cereal boxesCattail reedsChocolate cookiesCitrus wastesCloverCoconut hull fiberCoffee groundsCooked riceCover cropsCrab shellsDate pitsDead bees and fliesEgg shellsElectric razor trimmingsElmer’s glueExpired flower arrangementsFeathersFelt wasteFingernail and toenail clippingsFish bonesFish mealFlower petalsFreezer-burned food (non-meat)Fruit salad

Garden soilGrape wastesGrapefruit rindsGrass clippingsGreeting card envelopesGrocery receiptsGuinea pig cage cleaningsHair clippings from the barberHayHog manureHoof and horn mealHorse hairHouseplant trimmingsIvory soap scraps

Jell-o (gelatin)Kitchen wastesKleenex tissuesLeavesLimestoneLint from clothes dryerLiquid from canned fruitLiquid from canned vegetablesLobster shellsManure – from vegetarian animals

Melted ice creamMilk (in small amounts)MossNut shellsOld leather gardening glovesOld or outdated seedsOld pastaOld spicesOld, dried up and faded herbsOld canned fruits and vegetablesOlive pitsOnion skins

Outdated yogurtPaperPaper napkinsPaper towelsPea vinesPeanut butter sandwichesPeanut shellsPeat moss (in small amounts)Pencil shavings

Pet hairPicklesPie crustPine needlesPopcornPost-it notesPotato peelingsProduce trimmingsPumpkin seedsQ-tips (cardboard, only)Quail eggsRhubarb stemsRiver mudSawdust (in small amounts)Seaweed and kelpShredded cardboardShredded newspapersShrimp shellsSoggy Cheerios

Soy milkSpanish mossStale bread

Stale breakfast cerealStale potato chips

StrawTea bags and groundsTheater ticketsToenail clippings

TofuTossed salad

Vacuum cleaner bag contents

Watermelon rindsWedding bouquetsWeedsWheat branWinter ryeWood ashes (in small amounts)Wood chipsWooden toothpicks