WRAP Publishes Compost Good Practice Guide
24 March 2011
WRAP has published an online practical guide - Good Practice Guide for the Use of BSI PAS 100 Compost in Landscape and Regeneration - to inform and provide advice to new and regular users of BSI PAS 100 Compost on the best practices in the use of this material. The guide covers an array of fields where there is scope for extensive use of compost - like general landscaping, sports turf care, building (sustainable urban drainage systems and green roofs), civil engineering and highway, waterway maintenance, brownfield restoration and habitat establishment.
The Compost Good Practice Guide is a product of WRAP's considerable evidence gathering on the organic growing medium over the last four years and provides in-depth information on the use and benefits of this compost. The guide aims to encourage and build confidence among small and medium-sized businesses and for large-scale public development projects in the use of this material by providing application guidance, with accompanying specific site investigation and sampling direction and case studies demonstrating good practice for each area. Furthermore, the appendix gives general mixing ratios guidance, compiled from a range of site specific trials.
Paul Mathers, programme manager, Landscape & Regeneration WRAP, explained: "BSI PAS 100 compost is widely available throughout the UK. Armed with this new guidance and access to local producers, we are confident that more businesses will realise the advantages of using BSI PAS 100 compost, whatever their area of expertise.
"The Compost Good Practice Guide pulls together all the evidence we have gathered over the past few years. It outlines good practice across a range of landscape and regeneration applications and will be of interest to lots of potential users, many of whom may not realise the economic and environmental benefits of compost - architects, civil engineers, sports ground experts, brownfield developers and landscapers."
The guide, which is available online and can be downloaded from WRAP's website, will be updated as and when additional case studies and information arise through WRAP's continuing landscape and regeneration work.
Krishna Buddhiraju
