The Eco Bokashi bucket will NOT decompose the material while the material is in the bucket - it will only ferment (or pickle) it. If you can imagine a pickled onion - it will still look like an onion, but because it's pickled, it will have changed its internal structure. The single criterion to determine if the process is working is the odour - if there's no rotting odour, then the fermentation process is working. The physical decomposition into humus only occurs once the fermented material goes...
