COMPOST QUALITY STANDARDS & GUIDELINES
COMPOST QUALITY in America COMPOST QUALITY . STANDARDS & GUIDELINES . Final Report by William F. Brinton, Project Manager Dec 2000. Prepared for: New York State Association of Recyclers 2000 - Woods End Research Laboratory , Inc. PAGE 1. COMPOST QUALITY in America COMPOST STANDARDS & GUIDELINES . Report to NYSAR3. by Woods End Research Laboratory, Inc. Markets for organic matter will not mature until farmers can be confident about the product they are buying. . Gary Gardner, World Watch Institute, 1998. SUMMARY: The concept of establishing STANDARDS specific to COMPOST and the promotion of QUALITY criteria in order to bolster the COMPOST industry and to aid growth of new markets has been slowly emerg- ing over nearly two decades through-out the western world. Recently, several European coun- tries have adopted specific many other countries are in the process of doing so. In the United States, efforts have been very scattered. The only existing QUALITY GUIDELINES specific to COMPOST are presently promulgated by such specific agencies as state DOT's, which have an interest in large-scale COMPOST usage.
Table 2: Status of Compost Quality Seals by Country (Modified, after Centemero, 1999) Country Regulation or Guiding Rule QUALITY SEAL Austria ÖNORM S2220 1993 ... only this time into a very different arena of industrial and corporate players. As an example of the new partnerships that formed to promote composting, in 1986 Maine
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