Everyone should learn how to make compost to help our environment. It reduces the waste that will be dumped in landfills and other sites. It is an activity that the whole family can participate in. The kitchen is one of the places where you can get the ingredients for your compost pile.

Used coffee grounds and tea leaves are good additives for the soil. Eggshells can be dumped in too but they have to be washed and rinsed out of all egg parts. You really just want the shell. No animal products should be put in like meat, bones and dairy products. You compost pile will get contaminated and will attract vermin. Other things you can put in are your fingernails that you have just trimmed and your hair that has collected on your brushes. Even pet fur can be used.