As usual, a pleasant and informative post :)

We don't have a compost site I know of here in my region of France, but we do drop off a lot of branches and such at the local dechetterie (Communal Dump ? Not sure of the English name).

I seem to remember the town offering free installation of a composter a year or so back. we asked for one but the application never seems to have arrived, so we still use the old one :)

My grandmother back in Denmark has a huge compost pile, and I helped her dig into it a few months ago because she'd accidentally buried her electric dog collar fence (Which really just makes a loud beep when the dog gets too close to the fence... the electric part stopped working maybe a month or so afterwards, but the dog still religiously stays in her garden, which is nice... before it'd run after anything or anyone moving out in the road nearby, or lose itself in the nearby fields).

Ah, got sidetracked... something to do with composting ?

Ah, yes, I helped my grandmother dig some up, and she was pleasantly surprised to see the bottom had already turned to earth, so we proceeded to spread it in her garden :)

Oh, and a question.

Have you ever managed to get a compost hot enough (and with the right composition of materials/bacteria, etc...) to be able to compost meat and bones ?

The bones take a while, but if cut in pieces a "perfectly" managed compost can actually break them down, though at a much slower rate (nobody's been fool enough to propose creating a composting GMO organism capable of rapid bone breakdown... way to easy to end up with a boneless pandemic XD)