Jon, I was involved in a 4 day symposium for my Arborist's Certification Continuing Education down at UCLA a few years back. We had a guy speak on the subject of composting for over a half day. He was from down in your "new" neck of the woods but I forget exactly where. We're talking about a grand scale here with the Bio Mass that we in the tree care industry generate. He composts an area about the size of Disneyland!
One of their biggest contributors to the speedy biodegradation is Coca-Cola Bottling Company. They bring Coke in to his facility by the tanker truck every few days. Apparently it is the "cull" from their processing facility and they need to get rid of it somewhere so on the mountainous piles of biomass it gets sprayed. It gets those piles so cookin' hot that it literally catches fire. They turn these piles with massive excavators so you can imagine how big this operation is. Their other best contributor is Heinz. They deliver truckloads of cull tomatos.
I think this place is outside of Dallas but I'm not positive. Let me go through my files and I'll see if I can find the small booklet on Composting this guy wrote. It was very good and he is "The Guru" on the subject. If it's close to your new Digs maybe you can make a field trip out of it!
