Talk:Composting


 * Home composting
 * Industrial composting

These had led to disagreements between people looking to understand home composting and people interested in the field of waste management and industrial composting. The comments on the compost page were dated mostly being 2-4 years old and many factors had crept into the article.

The article still needs some work with a view of completely separate articles on home composting and industrial composting in the future. Comments, suggestions and help doing this are welcome --Alex 10:21, 28 August 2006 (UTC)s

Questions on Techniques
I found the following questions in the article that I have removed (reverted) and am posting them here:

The article above states that The high carbon sources provide the cellulose needed by the composting bacteria for conversion to sugars and heat....... My understanding is Nitrogen provided the heat not the carbon.

This was thew quote from above. "High-carbon sources provide the cellulose needed by the composting bacteria for conversion to sugars and heat, while high-nitrogen sources provide the most concentrated protein, which allow the compost bacteria to thrive."

80.169.139.106 15:27, 16 October 2006 (UTC)Waltzer

Vermiposting
ould mention term vermiposting - currently, wikipedia search for "vermiposting" finds nothing.

Other Ingredients
The section on "other ingredients" reads a bit like an argument, when it comes to the subject of human waste. Warnings that most compost heaps don't reach high enough temperature are so frequent that the text loses structural integrity. Would someone mind rewriting it so that it's neutral, rather than vehemently ambivalent?--Joel 20:10, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
 * True. It´s actually funny and should probably be posted on how not to make articles neutral.  By the way, aren´t animals divided into herbivores, carnivores and omnivores, not vegetarians and non-vegetarians? Envirocorrector 21:27, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
 * Agreed. It also contradicts the Composting toilet article in that respect. And, yes, animals are herbivorous, not vegetarian. -Pgan002  —Preceding signed but undated comment was added at 08:39, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

The Worm Composting section is full of value judgements
"badly needed" "burgeoning landfills" "wise farmers" "good gardeners"

As well, addressing the reader seems "un-encyclopaedic". "By using worm tea on your plants and gardens, you put healthy microorganisms back into the soil where they thrive and multiply, creating a much healthier growing environment for your plants." —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.168.125.2 (talk) 07:12, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

Chicken cage combination with composting
In the Balfour method, the keeping of chickens is combined with composting. See this page

Include in article. Thanks.

87.64.167.3 (talk) 09:18, 30 March 2008 (UTC)

Aqua-composting and mushroom composting
2 other types of composting are not described:


 * another sort of "aqua"-composting (correct term: Bokashi composting). See this website

and mushroom composting. Trough the use of mushrooms. See this website for info.

Both types may be more intresting for vegans (no meat/fish and its bones, ... needs to be composted then)

Rewrite article and include info. Thanks. talk) 13:12, 2 April 2765 (UTC)


 * Hey, you are the one posting from 756 years in the future. If you guys have got time travel figured out, but still haven't perfected composting, what hope do we have?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by The myoclonic jerk (talk • contribs) 11:25, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Compost tea and ratio of C/N
Info on making compost tea and how the C/N ratio needs to be maintained in practice can be found at this site In clude the info in article.

Note that its written in Dutch, but just translate the stuff using google translate. Thanks

81.244.207.130 (talk) 10:04, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

needs a citation
It is usually located in the back garden and while it is known to be good for the environment, it does attract ghosts. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.43.119.218 (talk) 12:58, 5 July 2008 (UTC)

major rewrite
Have tried to make this important sustainability/ environment related article more neutral, comprehensible, and focused on the topic rather than a stream-of-conciousness musing about misc. details of various other semi-related topics .... hopefully it can be elevated from StartClass, along with the long list of related pages [which I'm also working on ;) ] Red58bill (talk) 16:34, 26 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Well, I've just started dabbling in composting, but I tried to clean it up a little (the article, not my compost :-). I've never cited a source before, and couldn't really find specific directions on the various help pages. So if I made a mistake, someone please let me know.The myoclonic jerk (talk) 11:37, 12 March 2009 (UTC)

Controlled Microbial Composting
The article seems not to include Controlled Microbial Composting otherwise known as Luebke Compost e.g. http://www.ibiblio.org/steved/Luebke/Luebke-compost2.html 62.49.57.110 (talk) 09:17, 23 July 2009 (UTC)


 * Composting as discussed in this article is a "controlled microbial" process, and the end result of that process is further dealt with in the article on Humus Red58bill (talk) 07:26, 13 December 2009 (UTC)