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.
Coffee grounds and used tea bags also produce nitrogen in the compost pile. Avoid adding oil or dairy products to the pile. Salad dressings and cooking oil don't compost well, so vegetables prepared with these items aren't suitable for composting (see References 2, page 1). Some nonfood waste also composts well.