What goes in the bucket
Acceptable Food Waste
A quick guide to what Torus can and can’t compost.
Accepted
Yes, we’ll take it.
- Alcoholic beverages and residuals
- Beans, stalks and residuals from preparation
- Breads
- Cake and pastry, packaged and open
- Coffee and coffee products
- Cooking oils
- Corn syrup
- Dairy products
- Eggs
- Fats and cooking grease
- Fish and seafood processing residuals
- Flours, sugars, starches
- Food wrapping paper
- Fruits and fruit residuals
- Herbs and residuals from herb processing
- Horse bedding
- Institutional food residuals
- Jello
- Juices and residuals
- Liquid residuals from drink products
- Liquid residuals from food products
- Manure
- Meats
- Napkins
- Nuts, packaged and opened
- Organic fraction of household waste
- Packaged dinners
- Packaged drink mixes
- Paper towels
- Pet food
- Poultry and residuals from poultry processing
- Pre-consumer food waste
- Residuals from baking goods processing
- Residuals from beverage processing
- Residuals from food preparation
- Residuals from food processing
- Restaurant food scrapings
- Sauces for foods
- School and public facility food scraps
- Sodas and soda residuals
- Transfer station separated organics
- Trimmings
- Vegetable oil
- Vegetables and vegetable residuals
- Vegetative farm residuals
- Vegetative waste, grass and yard trimmings
- Waxed cardboard
- Yogurts
Partially Accepted
Okay in small amounts.
No more than 15% of the bucket
- Dinnerware, forks, knives, spoons
- Foil
- Glass, or glass containers
- Linens
- Metal containers
- Plastic wrappings or bags
Not Allowed
Please keep these out.
Never put these in the bucket
- Animal bones
- Batteries
- Bricks
- Ceramic
- Chemicals
- Cleaners
- Concrete
- Construction material debris
- Hazardous material or substances
- Lumber, metal plates, or bars
- Paint
- Process residuals
- Solvents, VOCs, tar, oil, oil products (cooking oil is allowed)
- Wood products