Can you compost popsicle sticks

Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Written by Linda Ly. But what exactly can you do with wood ash? Besides wood ash, what other household waste can be composted? Linda Ly August 17, at pm. Thanks for the tip! Andre David Bowers August 13, at pm. Caution State of Local Emergency declared Minimize. What goes where Residential recycling and disposal search tool.

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How to compost toothpicks and wooden utensils. Put wooden food sticks and utensils in your green cart for composting including: Toothpicks - no plastic flags etc. Tell us how we're doing Close. We do not. We figure out the next best thing, and we vow to do better next time. Grist thanks its sponsors. Become one. The next best thing to do with disposable wooden products like the ones you mention, luckily, is quite easy — if you have access to commercial composting facilities.

Many curbside pickup programs do indeed accept chopsticks and clementine crates, along with other cheap wooden scraps such as toothpicks, popsicle sticks, and coffee stirrers though, as always, check with your local composter to be sure. The larger volumes and higher temperatures achieved in these megapiles of compost break down wood more quickly than your backyard heap would. Try tossing a set of chopsticks into your own compost. Sushi sticks are biodegradable, though I suspect it will take a while to return them to the soil from whence they came.

Instead, Barbara, why not use those sturdy little cubes for a project or two? It turns out that clementine crates are stars in the world of internet upcycling. Some of my favorite ideas from here and here and these are just the start include using the boxes as pantry organizers, veggie party platters, planters for herbs and bulbs, shelving units, and jewelry displays. And if you are the crafty type, I should mention that chopsticks are no slouch in the upcycling department, either: Coasters!

Modernist fruit baskets!