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Fruits and vegetables

How to compost fruits and vegetables

Veggie peelings and scraps

Fruit peelings, cores and stems

Moldy and spoiled fruits and vegetables

Cobs, husks and stalks

Salad greens

Apple cores

Pits, peels and skins

Melon rinds

Examples of fruits and vegetables

  • Fruit and vegetable peelings, scraps and stems
  • Corn cobs and husks
  • Citrus and melon rinds
  • Apple cores
  • Pits from cherries, avocadoes, peaches, plums and nectarines
  • Salad greens

  • Put into your green cart

Put all types of fruit and vegetables (raw, cooked, spoiled and moldy) into your green cart for composting.

  • Remove all produce stickers, plastic wrap and other packaging before composting.

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