household items

A surprising amount of household debris can go in the pile: hair from the brush, dust from the vacuum, ash from the fireplace, corks from wine bottles. These items are small in volume but generate outsized search traffic because the answers are so unintuitive — dryer lint depends entirely on what your clothes are made of, wood ash is useful in small doses but harmful in piles, and charcoal briquette ash is a hard no. The pattern across this category: natural materials compost, synthetics don't, and many everyday objects are blends of both. Each page here untangles one item, tells you which part composts, and what to do with the rest.