Arthur Ready, MD at ENVAR reviews how receiving the new PAS 100 accreditation has allowed the company to expand their waste management services.
Part of the ADAS Group, Envar offers waste management solutions and recycling services specialising in organic waste and market/product development. We have been looking at the strategic development of our site in order to maximise the opportunities available to turn our waste by-product from the composting process into a valuable resource.
Achieving BSI PAS 100 (2005) will open up our market to not only the farming community but also horticulture, builder merchants, garden centres and close the recycling loop by providing residents with compost made from their own recycling efforts of food and green waste.
To achieve this producers are currently required to meet the requirements of PAS 100 in order to market their end product as ‘compost’ rather than waste. This standard sets rigid requirements for compost quality, including full traceability of the compost process, monitoring and record keeping, quality control including sampling and testing. To ensure consistent and uniform compost production throughout different composting sites, all PAS 100 products are required to meet a minimum quality criteria such as lack of potential pathogen indicator species, weeds seeds and propagules, potentially toxic elements, acceptable compost stability, physical contaminants and plant response to the product.
BSI PAS 100 is sponsored by WRAP and was created to enhance compost guidelines and improve industry process in the production of good quality compost. The Association for Organics Recycling (AfOR) has developed BSI PAS 100 along with WRAP as the specification that composted materials must meet in order to achieve the independently verified standard and to allow those that are successful in achieving this industry standard to use the renowned logo for PAS 100.
For more information please contact Emma Lucas on 01487 849841 or email Emma.Lucas@adas.co.uk.
