Elizabeth, who uses the road garden compost bins, emailed me, asking:

Can I put these things in the composting bins?

avocado seeds

pistachio shells (and other nut shells)

coffee grounds

mango pips

olive pips

And, I answered, “Yes, all those can go in.”

They take a while longer but they decay.

And Council’s Helen Bradley, Senior Project Coordinator , Waste Services, who works with us on the bins every second Friday , said:

“Yes as Michael mentioned the seeds and pips are fine in the compost – they just take a little longer to break down than say fruit and veg peel, but it is great to have diversity of materials in a compost – you then get a better compost out at the other end.

And so it goes,

Michael