What makes orange peel so bad to compost

Question

Compared to other fruits, which vanishes in months, orange peel is after years still visible.

In: Biology

Answer 1

Orange peels are good for compost, it’s an old myth that they aren’t a good compost addition. I regularly add them to my compost and they don’t take longer to compost than most other material. Eggshells on the other hand do take quite a while.