Another thing to add to speed up the composting is COKE! I remember reading
about it in Organic Gardening a few years back. I don't know if it is the
carbonization, the sugar, or the phosphoric acid. I find that it does heat the
pile up. I also add stale beer. Don't limit your compost collecting to only
solids. Fishtank water is good as are many of the liquids we pour down the
drain.

Ed