... The current compost recipe takes any single bio item, be it wood, algae, a crop, etc. Real life composting doesn't work like that - you need a mix of green waste and brown waste. So perhaps:

the original composting recipes could be nerfed to be low efficiency, probabilistic recipes ...

I'm very much enjoying the BA suite in 0.18, as I did in previous versions (I think I'm on about 1300 hours of BA), and I've got a couple of suggestions for features that could be added or changed within Bio Processing for realism or balance if you think they would be of use.

I've noticed that Bob ...