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.

Organic Farming" under Bob Bergland, Secretary of Agriculture (1980) in which perhaps for the first time since 1938 the properties of organic matter and compost were officially lauded. This study reiterated a long known definition of compost: "An ancient practice whereby farmers convert organic waste into

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