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Meat, shellfish and bones

How to compost meat, shellfish and bones

Meat

Bones

Seafood (including shells)

Chicken and turkey carcasses

Fish

Shrimp peelings

Ground meats

Examples of meat and seafood

  • Beef, poultry and pork
  • Ground meats
  • Bones and carcasses
  • Fish 
  • Shrimp, shellfish 
  • Lobsters, crabs, oysters, mussels, clams and their shells

  • Put into your green cart

Put raw, cooked and spoiled meat into your green cart for composting.

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