Given the small amount of material you have you may want to look into Bokashi composting.

Here is a link that might be useful: Bokashi composting

you can also use worm composting (aka vermicomposting)

Here is a link that might be useful: vermicomposting forum

A compost pile should really be bigger than a large pot or bucket in order to stay damp in the center and hopefully heat up a bit if the ingredient mix is right. That's why you're getting recommendations for other methods.

I like vermicomposting, but its not possible to do this in my balcony.... Worms worms worms...

Bokashi composting sounds great.. let me see the possibility of building a DIY bokashi bucket.

I watched a few videos and from my "video skim" it looks like the bokashi method yields things "ready to be buried" rather than ready to be used on a small patio or balcony.

I've done composting in 5 gallon buckets before. I managed to get temperatures of up to 70 degrees C (158 degrees F) with some assistance from the sun. This is not as hot as the interior of a large and properly managed compost pile but it's better than nothing. Compost purists will tell you that all the heat needs to come from decomposition but it really doesn't matter - paint the pot black, expose it to the sun as much as possible and most important of all, drill some holes all over the pot for aeration. Turn it daily, keeping it moist and adding greens and browns as you go. It will reduce in volume as it decomposes, so at some point you will have to stop adding material to allow the composting process to finish.

Get a second pot to start another batch.

Get your hands on plenty of dry leaves, cardboard or newspaper. You'll need lots of browns to balance the kitchen waste.

It's really not complicated. Organic matter always breaks down. All you have to do is ensure that it stays aerobic- so don't let it get too wet and/or too dense.

This post was edited by Slimy_Okra on Tue, Apr 22, 14 at 23:34

Newspaper...
I can get loads of it in no time.

The newspapers here are very bulky

One thing you have to watch out for is leachate. Make sure you have something underneath to catch any brown liquid that comes out. It can be poured on the lawn/garden or diluted and used to water plants. It will stain wood or concrete. And you might want to have a lid, if it rains hard your compost bin will be soggy and leaky.

I really should try this, the question pops up regularly on here. I've just never had to because I have a big suburban yard with compost piles and bins. I have plenty of kitchen waste and buckets.

Report back what you find, sg. We'd be interested to hear. Happy composting!

Thanks for the info about staining concrete. I was washing my compost container just recently, including up-endingn it to wash around the outside bottom. When I finished, the leachate from inside the container had now formed a nice brown ring on the concrete.

The irony is that I normally would wash this on the yard ground, but this one time, I thought I'd do it on the concrete since I had wanted to hose down the concrete area anyway.

So I wondered how it could leave this mark, since it was just some kind of broken down liquid right? Anyway, I'll be more careful next time.