Home composting
As shown in Fig. 1, home composting occurs when bacteria and fungi degrade biomass under aerobic conditions at ambient temperatures (35 C). Compared with industrial composting, here the biomass remains at lower temperatures, and is mixed less frequently. As a result, biomass degrades more slowly. In this article, we focus on home composting in temperate climates[69].have collected extensive measurement data of home compost tempera-turesover aperiodof twoyears in theUK. They showed that compost
temperatures are usually above ambient temperature, roughly between 20 and 30 C in summer and 5 and 20 C in winter. Their data shows relatively large variations in terms of temperature between individual composts, suggesting variations in metabolic activity.