Household waste — Voluntary intake points — Composters

**Location of voluntary collection points for compost.** **Compost your biowaste** In Paris, organic waste still accounts for 22 % of the household waste in the green lid bin. Composting biowaste allows you to recycle your kitchen and garden waste and naturally produce fertiliser for plantations. By sorting and recovering its biowaste at source thanks to composting, we can reduce the weight of waste produced per year per capita by 77 kg! ** Composting, how does it work?** Kitchen and garden waste is deposited in a bin reserved for this purpose: the composter. Over time, thanks to moisture, the addition of dry matter and the work of small animals that feed on the material to grow, as well as the regular brewing of the composter: waste breaks down to turn into compost. The natural compost produced is reused as a free fertiliser for its apartment plants or as fertile soil for planters. We can also help to plant common green spaces. **What waste compost?** · fruit and vegetable peels · food leftovers · egg shells · coffee Marc, tea bags · paper filters · towel-eat · dirt cartons to be shredded · indoor plants · dead leaves · faded flowers · plant residues... **Some food and household waste cannot be composted:** · citrus fruits · garlic and shallot (which are deworming) · fatty bodies (oil, butter...) · nuclei · meat and fish _[More information on Paris.fr](https://www.paris.fr/pages/reduire-et-recycler-ses-dechets-114/#reemployer-and-nbsp-donner-une-seconde-vie-a-ses-objets-occasionnels)_