So, I built a compost bin here at the Unity Project a month or two ago (out of 99% reclaimed materials i might add!) and now it stinks. A few days ago it was alot worse (I think the lesson was not to throw whole moldy onions and  rotting potatos in...). Any hoo, I just added sawdust to the mix and modifyed the lid to keep more moitsure out yesterday and that seems to have made a diffrence (or maybe the diffrence was from the cooler temperatures, who knows...), but I'm wondering what else I can do to keep the smell down and maybe speed up the de-comp of the pile (because with meals for 40, it fills up fast!) . So far I've read about the sawdust as mentioned above, mixing in charcol, peat moss, more "greens and browns" (leaves and grass clippings),  turning the compost (which I've been doing from the start), etc, etc...

Does anyone have any other suggestions, or have sources for cheap (read free or nearly free) sawdust, charcol or peat moss? 

Thanks, 

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