P.S I've been thinking of collecting all the used tissue paper and dump it in too (not the ones that need to be flushed down the bowl)

But do they contain things like mercury? The tissue is tinted blue with the Royal Gold brand.

If it's got mercury I think I'd be more worried about putting it against skin than in the compost. Some people ''compost wackos'' save yellow tp for the cp.

TP? CP? what is that?

TP= Tissue Paper
CP= Compost Pile.

All forms of used or non-used tissue or toilet papers are a perfect source of carbon (or nitrogen if the paper is used), for all hot aerobic active composting methods.

Happy Gardening!

I would not think rice is a green - carbos are considered browns. Beans, 'nother story due to the high protein content. Trace minerals? I dunno. Tiny amounts of everything. Based on your second questions, if you're worried about toxic metals getting into your compost, they aren't in food to begin with.

As far as tissue...the dyes are generally organic based and not heavy metal based these days.

Much thanks for the advice.

so rice are greens or browns? If they're greens I'll have to add more veggies and urine.

EDIT: I've checked the website and it says they're browns. Oops! Looks like I have to add more urine, vegetables and fruits.

Not much need to worry about adding extra greens w/ brown. You want a total overall higher brown content than greens.

Browns - leaves,shredded paper,cardboard,paper towels,paper towel and tp rolls.
greens - grass clippings, UGS, vegetable waste from kitchen or garden,most table scraps.

Greens really get things cooking, but in excess lead to smelly CP's. Browns keep it from stinking and are necessary w/ the greens to get the cp cooking.

rice is a brown it seems, but I'm getting quite a musty odour from the pile.

not to mention it's rock-hard now and it's difficult for me to turn it.

Most all rice, especially white rice, is a high carbohydrate because all of the nutrients have been removed in the milling process. Rice, unprocessed, is a seed and all seeds have everything the potential plant needs to grow and is a very nutritious food, if eaten unproccessed. Even "brown", and/or "wild", rice would not a really good, nutritious, food today.
If your compost is so compacted that it is like a "brick" it needs to be turned, and most likely is too wet and needs some dryer material added to soak up the excess water.

Sophiera, instead of spending time on what is browns and what is greens and which is best at their times, how about we schedule cleaning our refrigerator at least once or twice a year.

The putting of special designed baking soda boxes in the fridge and replacing every 3 months is also another suggestion. At least it can absorb some of the nasty odours you keep coming out with.

There's gold in them thar hills. If it took you 4 years to find some old rice in the bottom, imagine what might be under the appliance; all sorts of goodies.

You know those old socks your kids couldn't find Christmas past, I betcha!

Funny! Jeannie made a funny!

Nice to see a sense of humor, Jeannie

Karen

LOL XD

Yeah, we really should monitor out fridge more often.