How do you speed up composting vegetative waste?

Question

For my product development product, we want to develop a kit that would enable consumers to speed up the composting process when they use their vegetative waste in the compost. We have different enzymes (amylase-to break down starch, cellulase-to break down cellulose). We also considering using E Coli to help with the decomposition. However, our teacher wants us to use these ingredients in an innovative way. So far, we are testing all of these enzymes and see if they can rot fruit further and faster to help with decomposition. We are testing on banana peels (basic pH) and grapefruit (acidic pH). We want our product to work on a variety of vegetative waste. The ingredients we are using work optimally at different pHs and temperatures. I need help in developing a successful, innovative product and I can't find research that can help me. Please let me know if you have any ideas for our product, websites I can go to, ingredients (easy to get) that I can use, or experiments we can perform.

Answer 1

Might be you don`t need it, but to be on the safe side, here a  complete guide to composting:

http://www.compostguide.com/

http://www.compostguide.com/composting_t...

For faster composting:

http://74.125.39.104/search?q=cache:BX0_...

Additives:

Concentrated blend of micro-organisms and fungi:

http://www.edie.net/products/view_entry....

Vermiculite addition:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob...

Compost Activator is a synergistically blend of natural beneficial microbes, vitamins, marco and micro nutrients, amino acids, selected minerals and enzymes for both effectiveness in degrading organic matter, and help speed up the natural compost processes effectively

http://www.microtack.com/html/compost_ac...

Aerobic, thermophilic degradation with enzyme addition:

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/4132638...

Different procedure

Cedar Grove's composting technology:

http://www.cedar-grove.com/about/technol...

But most publications say additives are not helpful or needed:

e.g. COMPOST MYTHS:

http://weblife.org/humanure/chapter3_11....

This one could be interesting too:

COMPOST MARKET DEMAND AND PRICING STRUCTURE ANALYSIS IN

http://74.125.39.104/search?q=cache:inPQ...

Sorry, that the links are not more specific!