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.

Luxemburg Some compost plants follow German quality assurance system Netherlands Fully established quality assurance and certificate system Norway Compost quality studies underway; criteria proposed for 3 quality classes Spain Compost guidelines established and proposal for quality certi-fication system in the Catalonia region

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