Compost Council of Canada - Conseil canadien du compost

The Compost Council of Canada is a national non-profit, member-driven organization with a charter to advocate and advance organics residuals recycling and compost use. It serves as the central resource and network for the compost industry in Canada and, through its members, contributes to the environmental sustainability of the communities in which they operate.

Developing a Greenhouse Gas Protocol for
Centralized Composting Facilities in Canada

Vision
To ready the Compost Industry in Canada to quantify the greenhouse gas emissions reduction realized by centralized composting

Opportunity
To enable individual composting facilities to capture any potential incremental revenue to be available through carbon emissions trading Proposed Initiative

To develop an industry protocol to quantitatively assess the greenhouse gas savings realized by centralized composting in Canada

Key Elements Involved

Protocol by Baseline Emissions with support from The Compost Council of Canada (CCC)
Technical Working Group (5 - 8 members) established from CCC centralized composting facility membership base to participate in the development of the draft protocol
Using the pre-existing work conducted by the City of Edmonton in addition to other already-developed protocols and Environment Canada format, a draft protocol is being undertaken developed for the various centralized composting methods being undertaken (eg. Windrow, static aerated pile, in-vessel, etc.). Anaerobic digestion method to also be included in the protocol development.
Both Technical Working Group as well as Environment Canada consulted as the draft protocol is developed.
Sample composting facility selected to test the methodology and data acquisition requirements from the perspective of being both technically and environmentally rigorous as well as practical
Completed protocol submitted to Environment Canada and relevant provincial governments for review
User-level documentation and associated computer program developed to enable Canadian composting facilities to utilize the established protocol to quantify their greenhouse gas emission reductions

For more information, please contact:

Susan Antler	Allan Yee
The Compost Council of Canada	City of Edmonton
1-877-571-GROW(4769)	780-496-5414

Quantification of Greenhouse Gases from Composting

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