BSI consults on revision of the compost quality standard

Posted: 18 December, 2017. Written by Georgia

BSI consults on revision of the compost quality standard

• British Standards Institution (BSI) has opened a Public Consultation on the revision of the compost quality standard PAS 100
• The Compost Certification Scheme had consulted with stakeholders including compost producers, customers and environmental regulators
• The Background Document with all comments received previously can be downloaded from the REAL CCS website
• Individuals can feed into the Public Consultation through their trade association or directly to BSI

The British Standards Institution (BSI) has opened a Public Consultation on the revision of BSI PAS 100: 2011, the quality standard for compost produced by industrial composting facilities. A draft version of BSI PAS 100:2018 is now available to review on the BSI website and the consultation period will last for 6 weeks with a deadline of 12th January 2018.

REAL initiated a revision to the standard with BSI in spring 2017 and has since been consulting with relevant stakeholders including compost producers, customers and the environmental regulators.

All the comments received during this period were collated and have been published in the Background Document, which can be downloaded from the Compost Certification Scheme (CCS) website (www.qualitycompost.org.uk/standards/PAS100). On this page, individuals can also find out more about the Consensus Building Process.

Individuals who would like to comment on the proposed changes or any other aspect of the standard are required to provide their comments directly to BSI or through their trade associations.

Jenny Grant, Technical Author for the revision of PAS 100 said:

“So far the PAS 100 revision process has gathered comments from a wide range of stakeholders and where possible these have been incorporated into the draft document now out for consultation. I’m looking forward to getting feedback on the proposed revision and working to take this forward with the steering group.”

Dr Thomas Aspray, Associate Professor at Heriot-Watt University said:

"I am pleased that the public consultation on the draft BSI PAS100:2018 document is now underway. I am especially interested in making comment on the proposed changes to minimum compost quality criteria and seeing comment from the range of stakeholders"