Waste Means Food In The Circular Economy

In the circular economic approach, it is aimed to design products and packaging that can have equal or more after-service value and to make the concept of waste obsolete.

Waste Means Food In The Circular Economy

The buy, make and sell cycle applied in the traditional approach is now being replaced by the upcycling approach. Upcycling is the cornerstone of the circular economy. The products purchased and consumed are now designed with the next life value in mind.

The key components of this new approach are transparency and certification. Certification verifies that materials and products will function properly in their current form and will transform at end-of-life. The certification program ensures that products and materials are marked with labels that enable both consumers to be educated and material recovery facilities to process these products in a beneficial way. The certification program establishes simplicity, uniformity and trust, all of which ensure a transparent and successful product lifecycle.

Compost is organic material that becomes a nutrient-rich soil conditioner through a controlled decomposition process. When spread across fields, compost helps farmland retain moisture and eliminates the need for chemical fertilizers. These are the properties that make compost valuable.

Commercial composting facilities accept yard clippings, food waste, and certified compostable packaging waste. Waste is separated from contaminants such as plastic, glass and metal and ground into pieces of equal size. Then, green materials such as grass, food and fertilizer are mixed with dry leaves, branches and compostable packaging materials to achieve balance. This mixture provides nitrogen and carbon. If the mix is ​​carefully hydrated and properly prepared, microbial activity will heat the stack to optimum temperatures within a few days. The pile is rotated to allow air circulation and cooling so that those involved in eating and breaking up the compost pile organisms are broken down and overheating is avoided. In about 60-90 days, the resulting batch is ready for use.

Today, anaerobic composting plants have become increasingly popular. These facilities use organisms designed to work in low-oxygen environments to break down food scraps, garden ornaments, animal waste and compostable materials. It also traps the resulting biomethane gas to supply natural gas to businesses and consumers.

Our organization provides very different certification services for businesses in various sectors and carries out the necessary testing, analysis, control and evaluation activities within this framework. In these works, it always follows domestic and foreign standards, applicable legal regulations and generally accepted practices. In this framework, it also provides compost certification and C-Label (Compost Labeling) compost labeling services to businesses that request it.

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