1.   Around the country, energy experts have their eyes on clippings from suburban lawns, prairie grasses and other woody materials, as fuel for the new process.

2.   Cut off the half-inch-wide band of woody material that runs along the long angled edge of each quarter.

3.   This process will be greatly assisted if all the woody prunings, woody materials, old newspapers and the like are finely shredded before composting.

4.   Woody materials, sawdust and paper are high in carbon and as such are very slowly broken down.