Europe Cultivates Organics Treatment

European countries are revitalizing their approach to treating organic wastes. For many dec-ades, composting processes and quality control procedures failed to keep pace with the changing composition of the European waste stream, according to the Organic Recla-mation & Composting Association (ORCA), Brussels. As a result, compost quality deteriorated, composting systems collapsed and markets virtually disappeared. In the meantime, the waste management hierarchy of reduction, recycling, incineration and landfilling has been adopted throughout Europe. Governments are setting targets of up to 50 percent recovery by 2000 to cope with rising landfill costs and a scarcity of acceptable sites. In ...

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