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Kitchen Waste

Composting kitchen waste
Using a compost caddy is an easy way to recycle some of your kitchen waste and your shredded paper!

If you want to compost your garden waste, fruit cores and vegetable peelings, discounted composters and caddies are available via Surrey Waste Partnership Opens in a new window, to get you started.

The Recycle Now website Opens in a new window also gives information about other composting options such as wormeries and food digesters.

Greens		Browns
Vegetable peelings		Tumble dryer lint
Tea bags		Vacuum bag contents
Coffee grounds		Egg shells (crushed)
Fruit cores		Wool / natural fibres

Top Tip
Shredded paper will soak up any excess moisture and it's a brilliant way to recycle your confidential documents! This particularly helpful in the summer when your compost is likely to have more wet ingredients such as fruit peel and grass cuttings and is it risk of becoming slimey.

Cooked food waste cannot be easily composted using a conventional composter.

Surrey Heath operate a weekly food waste collection that enables both cooked and uncooked food waste to be recycled. This is part of the Recycling and Refuse Collection Service.

• View more information about the weekly food waste collection