Food waste humification: a process analysis

Abstract

Food and Agricultural Organization estimates that roughly 1.3 billion kitchen trash are generated annually on a global scale. By using composting, we could convert our kitchen waste into a properly sanitized, humus-rich, relatively stable product that improves plant growth by conditioning soil Introduction. The main objective of this study is to conduct a review of fundamental of composting, humus, and enhanced humidification. Humus is created from degraded organic compound by the polymerization and condensation of organic components such polyphenols, reducing sugars, and amino acids. Humification can be increased through vermicomposting, the addition of biochar made from digestate, the addition of microbes to food waste compost, the addition of cow manure, multistage inoculation, solid state anaerobic digestion (SSAD), and composting hybrid processes.