Making sure your home insurance covers damaged property may be priority number one, but insuring your family's personal liability is an equally important part of the insurance coverage for your home.
Dairy Products. Milk, yogurt, butter, cream and sour cream are all bad choices for a compost pile. As these ingredients start to rot, the compost will emit an increasingly foul odor. Dairy products also attract pests like rodents and flies. Do not add bones, meat, animal fat, whole eggs or other animal waste in the compost pile.
Though all organic materials eventually decompose, some aren't suitable for the home compost pile because they break down slowly, produce foul odors or are unsanitary. Meat, dairy and greasy foods rot before they begin to compost, and their foul odor attracts pests to the pile.