RRF DATABASE - THIRD PARTY REPORTS - BIOWASTES

Here are some useful public domain reports on biowastes, which you may find of interest.

If, on the other hand, you want to learn more about the Forum's own studies, then follow this link.

• European Commission working document on biowastes treatment - 2nd draft (February 2001) 0.2 MB

An EU-initiative to improve the present situation for biodegradable waste (biowaste) management and help meeting the targets of the Landfill Directive 1999/31/EC could be based on Articles 95 and 175 EC Treaty and should include the following elements:

To promote the biological treatment of biowaste by harmonising the national measures concerning its management in order to prevent or reduce any negative impact thereof on the environment, thus providing a high level of environmental protection.
To protect the soil and ensure that the use of treated and untreated biowaste results in benefit to agriculture or ecological improvement.
To ensure that human as well as animal and plant health is not affected by the use of treated or untreated biowaste.
To ensure the functioning of the internal market and to avoid obstacles to trade and distortion and restriction of competition within the Community.

• Success stories on composting and separate collection. European Commission Directorate-General for the Environment. ISBN 92-828-9295-6 (2000) 2.3 MB

This report has been produced as part of a project undertaken for the European Commission, Directorate-General for the Environment, on success stories on composting and separate collection. This project has involved identifying a number of successful centralised and home composting schemes in the six Member States of Spain (E), France (F), Ireland (IRL), Italy (I), Portugal (P) and the United Kingdom (UK).

For each scheme a case study has been completed, highlighting in particular the reasons for the scheme’s success. The objectives of the report are to provide information to local authorities across Member States that will assist in introducing successful and cost-effective home composting and biodegradable waste-separation schemes in their localities. This report describes the range of initiatives found throughout the Member States considered in this manual, reported in the form of case studies.

The key successful factors from specific case studies, and for all schemes, are summarised in the manual in order to provide key parameters for other local authorities planning similar initiatives. The dissemination of information from successful separation and home composting schemes will assist other local authorities charged with meeting diversion targets from landfill. This project aims to provide reassurance that schemes are practicable and affordable, and encourage the uptake of proven approaches to the diversion of biodegradable wastes.

• Compost as a product and a market. Martínez Orgado, Carlos.
  Spanish Waste Club, Madrid, Spain (2000) 0.2 MB

At present, approximately 10 million tonnes out of the total biowaste composted in homes or processed through selective collection and production of 5.5 million tonnes of compost in the EU as a whole. In order to encourage the use of this product, it is necessary to create compost is seen as not as a hard to eliminate waste problem but as a and, therefore, a wide range of commercial outlets.

This article analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of compost as a innovative outlets, its main competitors and barriers. In addition, situation and the future prospects of the compost market, it also highlights fostering this market, of developing a Community Directive and creating producers that can work to ensure the production and distribution of a high- Establishing quality standards within the scope of the European Union harmonize the quality of compost as a product, to generate a climate course, to encourage the development of the compost market.

• Maidstone Composting Survey - a partnership project between Maidstone Borough Council and the Resource Recovery Forum, September 2000. 0.3MB

The U.K. has one of the highest rates of waste disposal to landfill in the European Union. Around 85% of waste produced in England and Wales is disposed to landfill. Significantly, the stringent policy measures introduced by the EC Landfill Directive mean that greater recycling and composting will have to be encouraged by local authorities.

In order to assess and establish a baseline of current composting activity of householders in the Borough, this survey was commissioned by Maidstone Borough Council in April 2000, with the grant support from Biffa (formerly UK Waste) under the Landfill Tax Credit Scheme through the Resource Recovery Forum approved by Entrust.

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