ABSTRACT
After many years of working on composting, we feel that the more than 20-year-old definition of composting in Haug’s (1993) excellent book is more correct than ever. According to Haug, “Composting is the biological decomposition and stabilization of
5.1 Introduction ....................................................................................................77 5.2 Composting to Approach Zero Municipal Waste ........................................... 79
5.2.1 Composting within the Waste Treatment Hierarchy ..........................80 5.2.2 Benefits of Composting ...................................................................... 82
5.3 Scientific Principles of Composting ............................................................... 83 5.3.1 Physicochemical Parameters .............................................................. 83 5.3.2 Waste Biodegradability .......................................................................84
