Comparison of Compost Standards Within the EU, North America and Australasia

The aim of the project is to provide guidance to WRAP in focusing its efforts and resources in the

development of a set of robust and commercially beneficial compost standards in the UK. The key

objectives can be summarised as a review of existing standards and an overview, using comparisons

across the different standards, of the pros and cons of different approaches to the development of

standards. The analysis is intended to inform the process of developing appropriate sets of standards

in the UK. The scope of the research is to cover various classes of organic-waste based products

with the intention of gaining an understanding of the commercial and regulatory drivers and the

degree of success with which they operate