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Solid waste disposal activity is a continous activities. Therefore, solidwaste management system is needed. Management of urban solid waste has some difficulties in collecting the solid wastes and finding safe area to disposal them. Composting is needed to reduce its volume. Composting is a biological process. Composting is special process, because the raw material, the place, although the method can be done by anyone and wherever. Factors influence composting are : the shorting, size, nutrient (C/N ratio), and the moisture of raw material. The place of composting process might be digging soil, container or surface of soil. Effective microorganism 4 (EM4) can be used for composting, because it can accelerate decomposition process of organic solid waste. EM4 works in temperature of 40 - 50oC. The fermentation process will produce sugar, alcohol, vitamine, lactic acid and else organic compound. The result of fermentation process is named bokashi. The compost is useful for kinds of plants. Keywords : compost, disposal, solid waste