Composting is a good way to recycle yard waste such as leaves, twigs, grass clippings, most weeds, and dead houseplants. It is also a clever way to dispose of most food scraps and unwanted leftovers so that your refrigerator doesn't become the compost bin. In your compost bin the unemployment rate is very low. Composting is a means of harnessing a host of highly beneficial micro-organisms and earthworms who would otherwise be sitting around idle and unappreciated. Composting also can be defined as the natural process of decomposition and recycling of organic material into a humus rich soil amendment known as compost. For any business or institution producing food waste, this organic material can be easily decomposed into high quality compost.

2.      What food waste from the kiosk FEP cafe that we can compose? 

According to the Cornell Waste Management Institute states such all vegetables and fruit wastes even if they are moldy, anything that made out of flour such as old breads, donuts, cookies, crackers, or noodles. Grains such the rice that uncooked or cooked, coffee grounds, tea bags, old spices, outdated boxed foods from the pantry, the egg shells that crush well also can be compost in the compost bin. Grains, unbleached paper napkins, meats and newspaper can be composted. If it can be eaten or grown in a field or garden, it can be composted. Items that cannot be composted include plastics, grease, glass, and metals - including plastic utensils, condiment packages, plastic wrap, plastic bags, foil, silverware, drinking straws, bottles, polystyrene or chemicals. Items such as red meat, bones and small amounts of paper are acceptable, but they take longer to decompose. Add red meat and bones to only a well-controlled compost pile to avoid attracting vermin, pests and insects to partially decomposed meat scraps.

3.      How to Store Compostable Food Scraps in correct way?

According to an article entitle Master Composter written by Eco Pulse 2016 Report, it is important for us to know how to Store Compostable Food Scraps in correct way. First and foremost, the scraps can be stored in plastic bags in your refrigerator until used in your compost bin. Secondly, scraps can take up less space if you chop or shred them first during meal preparation. Furthermore, scraps can be stored in a Food Scrap Bucket until taken to your compost bin. A food scrap bucket is simple to locate. Just look for a 4-5 gallon bucket at your local hardware store and keep the bucket near the backdoor of the café or the compost bin.

4.      Benefit of compost to the environment

According to the article titled Food Waste Composting: Institutional and Industrial Application written by L. Britt Faucette honoured in Educational Program Specialist, Biological & Agricultural Engineering, turn the food waste into compost brigs some benefit such as water and soil conservation, protects groundwater quality, and minimizes odors from food premises areas. Long-term stable organic matter source. Moreover it also increases soil nutrient content, adds organic matter, humus and cation exchange capacity to regenerate poor soils and reduces fertilizer requirements.

•-by google docs

•-were 6 questions

•-47 respondents (UKM students) answered the questionnaire

•-21 October 2018 (3 days)
INTERVIEW
•-Mohamad Iqbal and Wahayu

•-they worked at FEP Kiosk

•-were conducted at FEP Kiosk (19 October 2018)
OBSERVATION
•-Observation (19 October 2018)

•-the observation was done by two times

•- at 10am and 9.30pm

•-by google docs

•-were 9 questions

•-47 respondents (UKM students) answered the questionnaire

•-14 November 2018 (2 days)
INTERVIEW
•-Dr Lim Seng Joe 

•-lecturer from school of Chemical Sciences and Food Technology.

•-were conducted at lecturer’s room (23 November 2018)
LIBRARY RESEARCH
-internet