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How to compost milk and beverages

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  • Put into your green cart

Put leftover liquids into your green cart for composting. This is especially important for fatty liquids like milk and cream.

  • Use newspaper, flyers and used paper towels to help soak up excess liquids. 
  • Only put in what can be absorbed by the contents of your kitchen pail. Fuller kitchen pails can absorb more liquids than emptier ones. 
  • If you have larger amounts of liquids (more than two litres), try putting small amounts in your kitchen compost every day until you have disposed of the entire amount. 

Special instructions

Don’t flush food beverages down your toilet, sink or drain. Over time, the fats found in drinks like milk build up, sticking to the inner walls of sewer pipes, restricting flow, causing messy, inconvenient, and expensive damage to household pipes and leading to sewer back-ups.

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