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Residential Composting

Composting at Home
Environment, Great Lakes, and Energy

Residential Composting

At-home composting can be an easy way to use the food and yard waste from your home.

Composting requires three basic ingredients:

  1. Browns
  2. Greens
  3. Water

Browns are materials like dead leaves, branches, and twigs.

Greens can include grass clippings, vegetable waste, fruit scraps, and coffee grounds.

Composting at home can give you a way to enrich your soils, reduce the need for chemical fertilizers, encourage the production of beneficial bacteria and fungi in your soil while also reducing methane gas emissions from landfills and lowering your carbon footprint.

Contact

Aaron Hiday
HidayA@Michigan.gov
517-282-7546

Video

Got a minute? Learn how to compost your yard waste into a valuable product you can use on your lawn or garden. All it takes is a few gardening tools and some materials from the local hardware store and you are on your way.

Earthworms for composting in a person's hands
Compost bins made by EGLE staffer Kent Walters