A proposal by the Environment Agency and Waste and Resources Action Plan to determine precisely when anaerobic digestate stops being put in the category of waste and thus not being subject to regulation has been published.
A composting standard applicable to quality digestate that has been granted approval and which is referred to as PAS 100 is set to be introduced under the quality protocol. Advice on the most suitable practice for the utilisation of digestate is also being sought under the quality protocol.
Anyone or any organisation wishing to express interest is welcome to answer twenty five questions which have to do with various facets of the technology, among them the PAS 100 and the financial implications of the proposed quality protocol, as part of the consultative process.
The director of retail and organics at WRAP, Dr Richard Swannell, launched the consultation, which ends on the twenty seventh of June. Dr Swannell said that an Anaerobic Digestate quality protocol would play an important part in the progress of the technology in the United Kingdom.
Dr Swannell further observed that once the quality protocol was in place it would enable the removal of the key obstacle obstructing the deployment of the essential technology. The quality protocol would also expand the market size for digestate since consumers would now have confidence in it.
The director of retail and organics at WRAP further added that the Anaerobic Digestate production would lead to the cutting down of organic waste that ends up in landfill sites.
Two months ago the government pledged ten million pounds to aid the development of Anaerobic Digestate centres to be used for the purposes of demonstration.
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