Toolkit

Compostable Materials — Can This Be Composted?

The bottom of this Commerical Composter's webpage mentions they only accept BPI certified products

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FTC Green Guides — Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims

The Federal Trade Commission created its Green Guides to help marketers ensure that the claims they are making are true and substantiated. The guidance they provide includes: general principles that apply to all environmental marketing claims; how consumers are likely to interpret particular claims and how marketers can substantiate these claims; and how marketers can qualify their claims to avoid deceiving consumers

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Minnesota: Compostable Bags Toolkit

This website provides a description of a compostable bags outreach toolkit, including downloadable, editable messages

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Compostable Bag Requirements in Twin Cities Metro

Program-specific background information and sets of FAQs from a Minneapolis-St Paul yard trimmings program. Information on how to determine the difference between compostable bags, where to buy them, and who needs to use them in the city.

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Brown is the New Green

The Cedar Grove Composting facility created their own brand of packaging products that are easily identifiable and compostable at their facility. This is the home page of their packaging website.

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Compostable Plastics And Environmental Marketing Claims

Biocycle's article "Compostable Plastics and Environmental Marketing Claims"

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Managing Compostable Bags At Anaerobic Digestion Plants

September 2012 BioCycle article that analyzes the best practices for treating residential food waste in Italy, as well as processing compostable bags in an AD (anaerobic digestive) system.

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Curbside Composting Programs in Boulder County

This Eco-Cycle residential flyer describes how to tell if a product is compostable, and explains how BPI Certification/ #7 PLA applies to curbside composting.

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Criteria for Accepted Compostable or Recyclable Food Service Ware in San Francisco

This is a list of accepted items in the City of San Francisco's compost and recycling collection system. The list specifically highlights what types of compostable plastics are accepted (must meet ASTM D6400).

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Determining the Amount of Plastic and Compostable Plastic in Compost "Overs"

A report on a compostable plastics disintegration study and the contamination of compost "overs" from non-degradable plastics.

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Acceptable Products for Commercial Compost Collection

Signage for bins that shows items accepted in commercial pickup, including acceptable compostable plastics

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Compostability Testing

Submission guidelines that tell compostable plastics vendors how to go about having their material tested by Cedar Grove Composting for a fee.

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Compostable Plastics: Opportunities and Challenges

This US Composting Council webinar from July 2011 explains what compostable plastics are (and are not), where they are being successfully used, and examines some of the key challenges, such as identification and labeling, certification and standards, infrastructure development and consumer education.

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New Wave Of Compostable Products Creates Recycling Conundrum

New Wave of Compostable Products Creates Recycling Conundrum, Compostable Plastic and alternatives

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Compostable Plastics 101

This white paper presents a basic overview of compostable plastics, including a review of definitions, standards for biodegradability, identification, and challenges consumers face. The paper was sponsored by the California Organics Recycling Council, a technical Committee of the California Resource Recovery Association.

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