On 7 April a twelve week consultation started to make organic waste easier for industry to reprocess into other products so as to divert it from landfill. Encouraging technology that reduces the amount of organic waste sent to landfill is the driving force behind this consultation by the Waste Protocols Project, a joint Waste & Resources Action Programme (WRAP) and Environment Agency initiative.

The Quality Protocol for the production and use of quality outputs from Anaerobic Digestion (AD), could make it easier to turn biodegradable waste into valuable products such as fertilisers and soil conditioners. It could also ease the regulatory burden by defining when the matter produced – digestate - stops being waste and therefore no longer needs to be subject to regulatory control.

The Consultation documents can be accessed from:
http://qp.dialoguebydesign.net/bgo/documents.asp

Source: http://www.wrap.org.uk/ (accessed 29/04/08)

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