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A considerable part of the total decomposable organic waste is treated in small-scale backyard composters. Nevertheless, as the scientific community mainly cares about large-scale composting facilities (including their end products), very few publications dealing with the specific problems connected with household composting are available. The results discussed in the present chapter clearly demonstrate that (1) even problematic organic material can be composted successfully in a comparatively short time in household composters (2) the best results concerning the course of composting and the endproduct are achieved by frequent mixing of the compost, together with applying chopped wood at a rate of 10%, and (3) further investigations on backyard composting are urgently needed, especially as the results of the interactions between different treatments of compost are still hardly predictable.
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Illmer, P. (2002). Backyard Composting: General Considerations and a Case Study. In: Insam, H., Riddech, N., Klammer, S. (eds) Microbiology of Composting. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-08724-4_11
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