Mellow Lab Overview
Welcome to our home composting environment. We share our experience, experiments, results and data analysis.
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Concepts, Aims & Background
The Mellow lab is a multi-purpose home composting project. Here we outline the motivations and key concepts and objectives.
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Lab Environmentals
Here we describe the garden and related (geographical) environmental elements relevant to compost data analysis
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Home vs. Industrial Composting
Home composting complements industrial composting. Here we cover key features of home composting and contrast with its industrial counterpart.
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Personal Perspective
Hello, my name is Mourad Kara and here I share some of my personal views for home composting and how I combine other hobbies together.
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Processing Finished Compost
Emptying a compost bin is always exciting. It is the time to see the fruit of all the hard work. Here we talk about the unloading activities.
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Finished Compost Statistics
Find out about annual and long term trends, Input/output ratios, densities and other aspects of our finished compost
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Different Grades of Compost
Finished compost is sieved to different grades for various purposes (house plants, seed trays, pots, veg plots mix etc..).
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Bin Cycle Phases
A bin cycle is a four phase life-cycle to decompose organic waste into finished compost
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Preparation & Maintenance
Essential initial and routine activities during the Active and Cooling phases to enhance the quality and speed up the finished compost to maturity.
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Hot and Cold Composting
Find out about how and where home composting decays in hot, warm and other temperature ranges
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Compost Bins Descriptions
We describe the physical properties, types, geometry and volume size of our compost bins.
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Compost Bins Statistics
Facts and Figures central to bins including number of cycles annually, decay ratios and durations for bin types and sizes
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Compost Bins Review
We share our experience using different types of compost bins; bottomless daleks, tumbler and custom built frames
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Input Waste Constituents
Here, we share our waste main constituents (greens & browns) coming from different sources; kitchen, garden, woodlands and elsewhere.
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Input Waste Statistics
Find out about annual, monthly and seasonal variations of waste material used in the compost lab.
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Other Sources of Waste
Here we discuss the different waste sources (and statistics); home generated and external (friends, family, neighbours etc.)
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