* Composting. Almost 50% of Australian household waste is organic and can be composted so the nutrients are returned to the soil. Unfortunately, much of this waste ends up in landfills, not back in our gardens. In landfills, it creates harmful carbon gases and liquid, which continue to escape and impact of environment and local animals for up to thirty years. We really should all be making an effort to compost and use it on our gardens.
1. Swap over.
Make a direct swap to the compostable bin liners and shopping bags. That way, you know that you are not contributing more plastic to landfill. That eases my eco-guilt and makes me happy.
2. Start composting.
Want to try them out for yourself? You can purchase them online at the website, at selected retail outlets or you can win some, right here on the blog!
Giveaway:
**This giveaway has now closed! The winners were Melissa, Stacey, Cathy, Caz and Krista! Well done girls **
Natasha is kindly giving away 5 Compost-A-Pak packs. Included in each is a kitchen caddy, a 6 months supply of 8 litre liners, and 5 Reusable Shopping Bags.
To enter:
* SUBSCRIBE to the blog. Add your email to the top right hand side.
* LIKE the Compost-A-Pak Facebook page. Go here.
* COMMENT on this blog post, telling us one thing that can go in compost bins.
Terms and conditions:
This giveaway is only available to Australian residents. It is open from now until Friday the 17th of August at midnite. Five winners will be chosen using random.org from those meeting the entry requirements. The winners will be announced on the blog post and emailed (make sure you make a note to check!) Good Luck.
Offers:
* Join the Compost-A-Pak Facebook page and take advantage of the special offer – get 50% off the purchase of a single pack of liners to trial.
* Exclusive to Natural New Age Mum blog subscribers! Purchase the Kitchen Starter Pack at only $19.95 (plus delivery) and receive 5 reusable shopping bags for free. That’s $10 worth of additional value! Just use the code FREEBAGS at the checkout!
What a great idea, perfect for all my vegetable offcuts and apple cores!
So clever! These would solve so many of my plastic issues, would love to win this giveaway! Veggie pulp from my juicer will be going into my compost when I get setup.
Sounds like a great product! Any fruit or veggie scraps without seeds (no citrus) can be composted, as well as lots of other household waste like tea bags!
I love these bags and I already have been using them for over a year- they are fantastic and breakdown great. You of course can put them in to your compost also egg shell is another. Julie
All my leftover pulp from juicing!
Great idea!
Pet hair is compostable 😉
Eggshells are ok for the compost. These are a great idea, my partner works in waste management, he is always complaining about the amount of stuff people throw out. Makes it easy for me to change him to an eco warrior (or hippy as he calls me)
would love this as we do juice fasting and end up wasting the pulp…would love one of these for the juice pulp…minus the citrus as I have read it’s no good for composte
Great, perfect for our veggie peelings!
Yes, juicer pulp. We make a lot of it. I have been looking for a good garden compost bin. Off to check out the website. Thanks Sonia!
I would love the compost able bags. And have used two bins for years. I place them in my garden, and as the compost break down, Nutrients are fed straight into my garden. I compost small quantities of anything that will break down along with scraps newspaper lawn clippings and a sprinkle of organic dynamic lifter ( just helps the process along. Cheers Sue . Oh always room for more bins.
Dust from the vacuum can also be composted.
Awesome product…..so sick of having the icky juices pour over my hands as i’m emptying the plastic bag full of vegie scraps and hubby’s coffee granules into the compost – much much EASIER and ENVIRONMENTALLY friendly to be able to throw the whole thing into it!!!
Good work – nice to know of peeps making the world a better place x
Veg peelings 🙂
We put the fallen leaves from our trees into our compost.
I love to put the fruit/veggie pulp from juicing in the compost.
Veggie scraps
Vegetable peelings
Look great. Carrot peelings can be composted.
I want to compost all my organic veggie scraps and egg shells!
paper mushroom bags 🙂
The chook poop and used straw after I clean their nesting box.
All of our fruit & vegetable peelings and scraps.
(This is brilliant thank you.)
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Definitely our morning milkshake scraps of banana skins, strawberry tops. I also can’t wait to add the dinner veggie scraps too. They’ll turn into glorious compost for my veggie garden. It’ll be amazing to turn veggies into more healthy veggies =D
All my fruit and vegetable peelings and scraps!
Hair, newspapers, tissues- we love composting here, so satisfying to see our soil replenished with our household scraps & ‘Hello worms!!’
Love this. Hope I win 🙂
Our food scraps which we throw on our garden can go in to the compost .
Love this idea, I have been thinking about giving my food scraps to the community garden for their compost and this would be perfect. I’m not into gardening but I hate seeing all the veggie peels, banana skins, apple n pear cores, corn cobs go to the tip and be wasted.
Great for composting coffee grounds!
Ohmygodohmygodohmygod!!! Banana skins!!!! Crossing fingers!!!!
This is pretty exciting!! I have really missed composting our fruit and veg scraps and also having a veggie patch… Next house we live in i will be getting back into it (we have no yard where we live currently!).
Apple cores for sure and I eat a lot of those. Great giveaway too.
Tea bags!
How fabulous! I put so many things into the compost, including used tea leaves 🙂
What a wonderful idea. This would ensure I actually put the stuff in the compost as it is right there on my bench top! I’d place vegetable and fruit peels, as well as coffee grounds in it. Too easy!
My guinea pigs get out vege peelings 😉 so it is anything and everything Rosie & Yoyo don’t eat!
Apple cores! 🙂
My 7 year old daughter says apple cores can go in compost bins.
Love products like this…. un likely products that could go into the compost is teabags, hair, and even cotton products 🙂
We literally just started our compost pile, so I would love to win.
The fruit my toddler mashes instead of eats.
What a great solution. If I don’t win it I might have to buy it.
What a great idea, will be telling all my friends. We compost fruit and veggie scraps. 🙂
All my children’s 3/4 eaten fruit and the dark bits of banana they refuse to eat! 🙂
Coffee grinds….and there are a lot of those here in this sleep deprived house!
Hair, when you clean your hairbrush and shower drain, composts well 🙂
Leaves
fruit & vegetable scraps
Juicer pulp! (tried making muffins out of it…bleurgh lol). Would love to win! Makes it seem so easy!
Banana peels, we have at least 3 a day in my house as my little monkeys love bananas. They also love helping me take the compost out!
Love this! I shred papers that I don’t want to go straight in the recycling bin and pop them in the compost.
Fantastic products, so clever!
Tea & coffee scraps can be composted. 🙂
Strawberry tops!
Banana peels, chard veins and juice pulp! Tea leaves and occasionally coffee grounds too… Thanks for sharing these products! It’s just what we need!
I believe coffee grind is great for composting!! I would love to try that.
I thought that a lot of the plastic shopping bags were already made of cornstarch or a compostable material? Not sure, just thought I’d heard something of the sort….
All my fruit n vege peel plus the tea leaves n egg shells
I think I need another compost bin! We compost anything we can: fruit, veg, egg shells, coffee grounds, tea bags, paper bags, compostable bags. Love seeing all the worms in action!
Egg shells, hair, fruit and vegie scraps
Coffee grounds can go in a compost bin , great nitrogen rich material.
Potato peelings!
What a great product. Am so glad I now know about this. I put dead flowers in my compost bin.
Awesomesauce!!
I compost citrus peels and onion scraps as they are no good for my worm farm 🙂
Snotty tissues!
Empty egg cartons
Thank you so much for this post and giveaway! I have been looking for something just like this! All of our copious amount of veggie scraps will be going in our compost once we get it set up 🙂
What a fantastic idea! I’d love to teach my son to help me compost everything possible, from the peelings to the ‘off’ fruit.
These look great!!! I would put all of my fruit and vegs scraps into it.
Awesome products, would love to try these. Newspaper, veggie scraps, brown leaf matter etc can go in a composting bin. 😉
Food Scraps Galore can go in Compost but the one That sticks out to me is Carrots as Peeling them makes a lot of Scraps to go into the Compost Bin.
My organic loose tea leaves!
Guinea pig waste when we clean out the cage
Vegie scraps….love this 🙂
Banana skins
All my pre-schooler’s dinner leftovers go in the compost – one week he is eating close to an adult sized meal, the next picking like a toddler again! Fickle food behaviour only made less frustrating because I can at least add the surplus to the compost!
My husband and I were just talking about this today! Thank you so much for showing us an alternative. Now we plan to use cardboard boxes for our shopping and buy these for our bins (instead of plastic shopping bags). This is very exciting!!
I would love to win this!!! I compost cardboard from cereals packets etc, egg containers and nut shells too!!!
One thing that can go in a compost bin is fruit and vegetable peels, such as apple skins.
All our tea leaves, fruit & veg waste! Been looking for something for shopping finally found them,
I’ve been so wanting to get our composting happening, but have lacked the time I thought it required to build a system. This looks like a very easy and well thought-out system. I’d put all our bread, stale rice cakes, fruit & vegie scraps, coffee grounds, etc in. We have guinea pigs & a rabbit, so I’d give them the things they like to eat out of the scraps, before putting the rest into the actual composter.
In my house lots of apple cores go into the compost – my kids eat apples like they’re going out of fashion!
This looks like a fantastic product, sure beats my silly bin under the sink that gets smelly and nasty. I compost everything I can including vegie/fruit scraps, grass clippings and tea bags.
Fine Ash from your wood fire, adds an element to the compost mix and is great to put on your roses.
I subscribed to your blog and liked the Compost-A-Pak facebook page.
I use coffee pods at home and I love that you can open the used pods, recycle the capsule and compost the coffee grounds!
Would be perfect for my vegie peelings! And I am trying to start up an organic garden so making my own compost would be perfect 🙂
all the left over veggie and fruit peelings!!! What a great idea!
Our food scraps and vegie scraps that we don’t give to my nephew’s pet pig.
Love this! Great idea! I add vege scraps and a lot of fruit scraps, tea bags and coffee bags. Tea leaves and coffee grounds are put direct to some plants. I’d love to end the smelly scrap kitchen tidy!
All our juicing scraps and newspaper !! Thanks for recommending a great page !!
Paper towel, paper serviettes, dead flower arrangements, ash from fireplace
If I won one of these, the kitchen caddy would get a great workout with all the fruit and vegetable skins/peels that my 3 hungry (starving!!!) boys (aged 5, almost 3 and almost 2) go through… it’s nuts here, I go through something ridiculous like at least 1kg of apples, 1kg mandarins, 1kg strawberries, 2kg bananas, 1/2kg oranges, 1kg tomatoes, 1/2kg capsicum, 1/2kg sugar snaps, 1kg cucumbers… and that’s each week!!! When we move (soon, soon!) I am definitely starting a great vegie patch and a fruit patch (to save me some money?!), and a compost bin, of course!
Such a great idea. Vegies or fruits scraps!
Wombat poo. It’s amazing in the compost and the worm farm.
What a great giveaway! Perfect for all the fruit and veg scraps and egg shells. Love it!
Veggie peelings
Veggie peelings :0)
Fantastic. Don’t like having the supermarket bags for bin liners.
All my veggie scraps can go in these compost able bin liners.
Egg shells, tea leaves and fruit peelings
Great, finally some ‘actual’ eco friendly bags. Great to see. And a great blog post as always making it all nice and easy to understand and operate. My husband’s mission is to have no green waste leave our property and go into landfill. We compost everything! (yes our pile is pretty big but breaking down beautifully). Our Macadamia nut husks from all of our trees has broken down nicely into beautiful soil ready for spring planting.
Veg scraps and peelings.
I have wanted this type of system for soooooo long. Thanks so much for sharing this great information for us. All the tea leaves & spice left overs from my chai can go int he compost!
When we get our compost bins going, hubby is collecting pallets to make a set of 3 up. Veges peelings and tea bags, chook manure, paper waste.
Potato peel can be composted 🙂
These products are awesome! I was only thinking today that I should start composting. Banana peel can be composted 🙂
Tea leaves and egg shells
Great idea, easy for the kids to pop in the compost now without turning up their noses. Oh and I reckon teabags could go in too.
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Vegetable and fruit peels can definitely go in compost bins…
What a great idea! I love to throw my coffee granules and eggs shells into my compost.
fruit (except citrus, for some reason i am thinking banana peels too?) and vege peelings are great for compost 🙂
ALL our fruit and vegie scraps get composted – except citrus fruits… The acidity kills the worms.
I clip my dogs myself and guess where all that hair goes?!…
Fruit and vege scraps.
This really excites me too!!! We compost fruit and veg scraps (minus citrus and onions), tea bags and coffee grounds. Through this post I’ve learnt of lots of new thing we can compost, also heard toilet rolls the other day 🙂
Plenty of egg shells too to compost
Gee I’ve definitely learnt a . Few ideas we compost fruit veg coffee ground and tea bags now ill be doing a lot more
B-an-an-as lots and lots of banana skins. My 3 little ones devour these.
Egg shells, they give a real ‘boost’ to my compost!
Dryer lint!!
What a great idea! Some people are so clever and inspirational 🙂
I would be able to collect up all my own and my long-haired dachshunds’ hair moultings and add them to the compost! And all that vacuum-cleaner dust from my trusty little robotic vacuum. Sooooo many things from our lives can be included in this! Nifty!
Coffee grounds can go in a compost bin As it is a Great source of nitrogen and worms love coffee grounds!
Oh my gosh! I need one of these with all the juicing I do! We eat eggs like they are going out of style as well, so all the juicing pulp and all our 1000000’s of egg shells would love a home in one of these!
All of our compostable food scraps already go to our chookies, we compost grass clippings
Veggie, fruit and tea bags
Shreaded paper and garden waste (to balance out all the kitchen scraps!)
Fruit and vege scraps
I would live to compost to kick along my vege garden
Ooh all my scrap from my veg and fruit juice every morning!
All of our fruit and vegie scraps 🙂
Hair can be composted 🙂
I would love to win this – I need to set up my herb/Vegie garden again. At the moment I use an old ice cream container inside for compost, having more space with a compostable bag I could throw in the outside compost bin would definitely be more convenient!!! I love composting coffee and Crio Bru grounds along with the usual fruit and veg scraps.
We love putting out veggie peelings, scraps and fruit in to the compost. Great for our garden and great for the environment.
This kit is what I have been searching for! If looks easy, so that means I will compost more 🙂 Ground coffee beans are great to add to compost.
I would put in any of my peels from potatoes, cucumber, fruit pulp, egg shells, any scraps. My kids love to garden and this will be a whole new fun activity for them to enjoy!
Veggie scraps.
Fruit scraps
Dust bunnies! Particularly good when you have wooden floors. They seem to be everywhere!
Fantastic product! Veggie peelings make great compost!
Tea bags can be composted .
my vege and fruit scraps! How awesome is this prize LOVE it
All the scraps from the vegetables from our vegie garden go into the compost bin to go back into the earth 🙂
Hair from hairbrushes, bamboo toothbrushes. Fruit and veg scraps, some paper……. So much can be composted!
Fruit & Veg scraps!! Preparing, cutting, peeling, coring and slicing fruit and vegetables for 4 kids lunchboxes and 1 for my husband every morning makes a mountain of scraps perfect for composting!!
Off cut veggies – the ones that don’t quite make it into my stocks!
All of the banana skins my kids eat and the ubundace of pulp from juicing 🙂
vegie scraps and tea bags would be going in my compost bin!!!
wow so many entries = so many people looking out for the environment :-)I would love to win this package, would make taking out the waste so much easier from my 4th floor unit. ( no lift)i could tie up the vegie scrapes in the bag and sit it inside the recycling bin to carry down stairs without leaks and mess.
I’ve wanted to start composting for a while now but unfortunately have not gotten around to it yet. It would make me so happy to be able to compost all my fruit and veg scraps, tea bags, eggshells! So much less to go into the bin!!
I would love to start composting but didn’t know where to start, this would be an amazing prize! I would definitely start composting egg shells among other things. We go through over 12 eggs a week and that’s just 2 of us…luckily we get fresh farm eggs from my MIL’s chooks!
This would be perfect for me to put in the potato peelings and excess fruit and veg scraps that I don’t give to my chooks! And then hubby will be happy as he will then get a decent amount of compost for our vegie garden 🙂
Ground coffee beans, tea bags, egg shells, apple cores, banana peels, corn cobs, crumbs that you sweep from under the table and what used to be steamed veggies, now a mashed messy looking Picasso on your child’s plate 🙂
This would definitely be an upgrade from my recycled ice-cream container! I rely on a kitchen scrap bucket for potato peelings which are an excellent food for healthy compost!
It would give me great pleasure to compost my shredded bills and juicing pulp ( that isn’t used for worm food or cookie baking) in one of these compost-a-paks!
Great concept!
Fruit!
Great idea perfect for the vege scraps the chooks wont eat!!
I would compost the left over pulp from juicing
All the juicing pulp from our juicing each morning!
Our food scraps, egg shells and left over newspaper – great idea for kids to learn
Tea bags can go in the compost! Which I think is great because I drink a lot of it! =)
Fruit,vegetable peelings and scraps. Would look better than the old ice cream container!
Egg shells.
Drier Lint (I wonder if you can add Belly button fluff? If you can add hair BBF should be fine too 🙂 )
What can go in my compost bin? Well I can’t compost my housemates for not using the bin but I can certainly compost all my cooking/food prep scraps – ie veg and fruit peels, egg shells, and leftovers from the coffee machine to deter snails! Pick me, pick me! X