The temperature pattern showed that there is a rapid progress from the initial mesophilic phase to the thermophilic phase for both these treatments, which points to a high proportion of readily degradable substances, e.g. vegetables and fruits (contained in a green waste material). According to Haug [18], the composting temperature has to be above 55°C for three consecutive days to kill the pathogen. Although both the compost pile treatments met the requirement, pile C1 has the longest period of time above 55°C, that is, for 6 consecutive days, while C2 only remained for three consecutive days. Even though no microbial test was done on the sample, it can be assumed that the compost treatment with EM (C1) has high microbial activity compared to C2 based on the high temperature achieved. The declining TOC value, which was 49% for C1 and 36% for C2, is similar to that reported by Benito et al. [19]. According to Tumuhairwe et al.