While items like eggshells, fruit peels, and soggy produce are common compost pile additions, this more decorative item is ...

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The only place it’s hard to compost is an apartment. So declares Jackie Trimble of Washington State University Master Gardeners. She highly recommends the do-it-yourself approach of getting food ...

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The best compost bins can handle everything from your morning coffee and eggs, to the veggie stir fry you had for dinner and any additional scraps, peels and grounds over the course of a day.

When you think of kitchen composting, food scraps and coffee grounds may spring to mind. However, there's another item in your kitchen you can compost, too.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Banana peels, vegetable scraps, egg shells, and coffee grounds — these are things you can readily find in the kitchen that come in ...