Compost This?
By: Shoshanna Levy
Published: May 24, 2011

As gardening season kicks into high gear avid growers collect food scraps, coffee grinds, and egg shells to nourish their soil. But, it turns out there are a wider variety of items that are often ending up in the trash or recycling that could be used for your garden. Cotton swabs, used paper plates, old receipts, magazine subscription cards, wine corks, and rawhide dog chews are just a few of the items on this hefty list of landfill-reducing suggestions.