Kitchen waste and air-dried garbage
Fresh kitchen waste and air-dried garbage were used in the experiments described here. The air-dried garbage contained a great deal of vegetable waste, a small quantity of meat waste and little starchy waste, the garbage had been generated in food pretreatment processes, and the air-dried garbage was used as a bulking agent for the composting process.
Fresh kitchen waste and garbage were collected from the Zhejiang Gongshang University canteen, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China. All of the fresh kitchen waste and garbage was cut into pieces with diameters of 5.0 ± 0.5 cm, and then the cut garbage was allowed to dry naturally before it was used. The characteristics of the fresh kitchen waste and air-dried garbage were shown in Table 1