Purchase a bin and get composting
Liverpool residents can purchase compost bins from Straight PLC.
- Compost Converter 220 litre for £15.00 + £5.49 delivery.
- Compost Converter 330 litre for £18.00 + £5.49 delivery.
How to order
Order your compost bin by calling 0844 571 4444 or online at the Straight PLC website for Liverpool residents. This website also provides a comprehensive guide to composting.
What to put in your bin
- Tea bags.
- Grass cuttings.
- Vegetable peelings, salad leaves and fruit scraps.
- Old flowers and nettles.
- Coffee grounds and filter paper.
- Spent bedding plants.
- Rhubarb leaves.
- Young annual weeds (e.g. chickweed).
- Crushed egg shells.
- Egg and cereal boxes.
- Corrugated cardboard and paper (scrunched up).
- Toilet and kitchen roll tubes.
- Garden prunings.
- Twigs and hedge clippings.
- Straw and hay.
- Bedding from vegetarian pets.
- Ashes from wood, paper and lumpwood charcoal.
- Sawdust and wood chippings.
- Wool.
- Woody clippings.
- Cotton threads and string (made from natural fibre).
- Feathers.
- Vacuum bag contents.
- Old natural fibre clothes (cut into small pieces).
- Tissues, paper towels and napkins.
- Shredded confidential documents.
- Corn cobs and stalks.
Never put these in your bin
- Cooked vegetables, meat and dairy products (unless they have first been treated with a specialist Kitchen Composter).
- Diseased plants.
- Dog poo or cat litter, or baby's nappies.