This REA report on Management of Compostables for Organic Recycling was funded by the UKRI Innovate UK Smart Sustainable Packaging Challenge.  It brings together information on aspects of the management of compostable packaging and non-packaging items that are relevant to food waste fed anaerobic digestion (AD) and composting facilities in the UK.

Part of the Compostable Coalition UK’s Closing the Loop for Compostable Packaging project, this report;

• collates AeroThermal Group’s findings on the efficacy of Thermal Pressure Hydrolysis (TPH) as an AD pre-treatment step,
• highlights key aspects of Envar’s in-vessel composting trial,
• provides an overview of depackaging technology, and
• highlights aspects of another project’s research, carried out and published by UCL, on a system for identification and classification of key types of compostable and non-compostable plastics.

For more information, please visit the CCUK’s website here or contact the REA here.