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| Effects of Starter and Microbial Agent on Vegetable Waste Compost |
| CAI Jin-zhong 1，2，LIN Wan-ying 1，HE Shao-gui 1，ZHU Ling 1，2，YI Shu-ying 1，WANG Yan-yun 1，2* |
1 Department of analytical Science and Technology，Xiamen Huaxia College，Xiamen 361024，Fujian，China；2 Xiamen
Environment Monitoring Engineering Technology Research Center，Xiamen 361024，Fujian，China |
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Abstract Taking corn stalk as auxiliary material and glucose as starter，this paper sets 4 treatments，
including V0（vegetable waste+corn stalk），V1（V0+microbial agent），V2（V0+microbial agent+starter），V3
（V0+starter）．The initial C/N and moisture content were set as 25 and about 60%，respectively．The effects
of starter and microbial agent on vegetable waste compost were studied by measuring the temperature，moisture
content，C/N，pH value，electrical conductivity（EC）and germination index（GI），etc. indexes．The results
showed that the treatments of adding starter and microbial agent at the same time was better than that of the other
treatments in heating rate，maximum temperature，high temperature days，decrease in moisture content，
decrease of C/N and increase of germination indexes．V2 could also shorten the composting period and improve the
quality of compost products．The overall composting effect is V2 ＞ V1 ＞ V3 ＞ V0．
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Received: 17 July 2018
Published: 08 October 2018
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