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Egg shells and coffee grounds - that's it

16 years ago

There are only two things that come out of my kitchen - egg shells and used coffee grounds in a paper filter.

Am I correct in assuming that there is no point in putting them in a bin to compost?

Should I just collect for a few days, crush the shells, and fling the stuff into the yard? This seems to be the obvious answer, but I just want to make sure there isn't something more to do, such as burying it.

Thanks!

Comments (10)

  • 16 years ago

    That's what I would do, after removing the filters.

    However, if you added a bit of paper (used paper towels, paper towel or toilet paper cores, newspapers, maybe junk mail), you could actually compost it first.

  • 16 years ago

    I compost the filters along with the grounds. But I don't supposed you would want filters floating around the yard.

  • 16 years ago

    I'm intrigued by the first sentence. How do you live?

  • 16 years ago

    I was thinking the same thing. I can't imagine not having banana peels or orange peels to compost.

    I suspect that the only thing she cooks at home is breakfast. Other meals are eaten out or cooked elsewhere.

  • 16 years ago

    Thanks for the advice - and I knew someone would ask about this odd arrangement.

    Right now and for the foreseeable future I am on a food plan called Diet to Go. It is located in the Washington, DC area. Twice a week I pick up my pre-made lunches and dinners to heat and eat. And since I am on a low-carb eating plan, my breakfast is always an egg.

  • 16 years ago

    I am on a food plan called To Go as well ... Outback, Carraba's, Maccaroni Grill, . . . . . .

    *grin*

  • 16 years ago

    I am a Vegan,,and ALWAYS have ALL the right stuff to compost. Yah baby !!! My compost bins are thawing,,no more snow,,and things are loosening up. I can't wait to turn them over soon. YAY!!!

  • 16 years ago

    You could go with a worm composting bin of flinging it in the yard doesn't work but really sometimes the simplest solution is best(: at least you don't want to put it in the trash

  • 16 years ago

    If I were you, I'd keep things simple. Put the coffee grounds directly on your garden. Let the eggshells dry out, then crush them and sprinkle them on your garden.

    Easy Peasy.

  • 16 years ago

    In our kitchen I (I say "I" because my wife wouldn't go to all the trouble!), have a small plastic bag sitting on a tray, into which go potato & carrot peelings, chopped-up pineapple leaves. After each brew of filter coffee, I put the paper and grounds on the tray in an 'open' position to let them dry out overnight (although there's still some moisture present). Then I tear each one up in strips and put them in the plastic bag. When the bag is full, the contents get tipped into a bucket in the garden. This merely being a 'holding bin'. It gets emptied when I'm ready to fill my compost bin.

    I keep dried eggshells in a plastic until I have a couple of dozen or so, then crush/roll them with a rolling-pin until they're a fine powder, which I can also add to the bin.