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Composting is the solid state aerobic degradation of organic waste, principally of plant origin. This may be agricultural waste, garden waste or domestic refuse. The latter is included because of the large amount of paper used in packaging and in newspapers and magazines. The common factor with all of these is the high proportion of lignocellulosic material in them. Lignocellulose is the material of which plant cell walls are made and it is the most abundant organic material on Earth. It has been estimated that it represents approximately 50% of the annual global production of biomass, about 5 × 1010 tons (Goldstein, 1981). Composting can produce useful materials from lignocellulosic waste. It can also carry out desirable processes on waste itself and on other materials using the lignocellulosic waste. (Figure 1.)
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Whitney, P.J., Lynch, J.M. (1996). The Importance of Lignocellulosic Compounds in Composting. In: de Bertoldi, M., Sequi, P., Lemmes, B., Papi, T. (eds) The Science of Composting. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1569-5_50
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