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Anaerobic digestion (AD) is a multi-stage biological process in which organic material of waste is degraded by microorganisms in the absence of oxygen (Esposito et al. 2012). This process also minimizes the volume of waste generation and resulted digestate could be used in agriculture as nutrient fertilizers or soil conditioner. AD has become an established and proven technology for the treatment of wastes, coming from including those of domestic/municipal, agricultural and industrial origins (De Baere 2000). Biochemical methane potential (BMP) is a procedure, first established by Owen et al. (Owen et al. 1979), developed to determine the realistic estimate of methane production of a given organic substrate during its anaerobic decomposition. The BMP assay has demonstrated to be a relatively simple, reliable and powerful tool to obtain the extent and rate of