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How to Compost Coffee Filters
How to Compost Coffee Filters. When you actively maintain a compost bin to create black gold compost, you may continually search for and collect both brown and green materials to add to your compost bin. Brown materials such as dried leaves and sawdust add carbon to the compost mix. Green materials, including grass clippings and kitchen scraps such...
When you actively maintain a compost bin to create black gold compost, you may continually search for and collect both brown and green materials to add to your compost bin. Brown materials such as dried leaves and sawdust add carbon to the compost mix. Green materials, including grass clippings and kitchen scraps such as coffee grounds, add nitrogen to the compost mix. When you compost coffee grounds, add your coffee filters right along with the grounds. They easily decompose in the compost bin.
Things You'll Need
Coffee grounds and filters
Bucket with lid
Other kitchen scraps (optional)
Compost bin
Dried leaves
Collect your coffee grounds and filters in a bucket in your kitchen. Every time you empty the coffee grounds and filter from your coffee maker, simply open the bucket and dump the entire used filter and damp coffee grounds inside. Close the lid to store the refuse.
Continue collecting coffee grounds and filters, along with other kitchen scraps (if desired) for two to three days. Take your bucket of kitchen scraps out to the compost bin.
Open the compost bin and place the kitchen scraps (the green materials) on top of the compost in the bin. Spread the scraps out so they are in an even layer.
Place a layer of brown materials, such as dried leaves, over the green materials. Make the ratio of brown materials to green materials between 5-to-1 and 8-to-1 (brown to green).
Tips & Warnings
For best results, use unbleached coffee filters so the bleach from the coffee filters does not leach into your compost.
Always leave your compost bin with brown materials on top. This ensures your compost bin does not attract unwanted pests and visitors. If you leave kitchen scraps on the top of your compost bin, insects and scavengers will find your compost bin. A brown layer on top of your compost bin also will reduce unpleasant odors.
