Journal
BIORESOURCE TECHNOLOGY
Volume 101, Issue 21, Pages 8205-8210Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.biortech.2010.05.068
Keywords
Vegetable scraps; Fish processing waste; Newspaper; Onion peels; Simplex-centroid mixture design
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Composting is a good recycling method to fully utilise all the organic wastes present in kitchen waste due to its high nutritious matter within the waste. In this present study, the optimised mixture proportions of kitchen waste containing vegetable scraps (V), fish processing waste (F) and newspaper (N) or onion peels (O) were determined by applying the simplex-centroid mixture design method to achieve the desired initial moisture content and carbon-to-nitrogen (CN) ratio for effective composting process. The best mixture was at 48.5% V. 17.7% F and 33.7% N for blends with newspaper while for blends with onion peels, the mixture proportion was 44.0% V. 19.7% F and 36.2% O. The predicted responses from these mixture proportions fall in the acceptable limits of moisture content of 50% to 65% and CN ratio of 20-40 and were also validated experimentally. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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