The Organic Industry And Compostable Plastics
Figure 1: Overview of the NOP National List petition process

For compostable plastics to be allowed as an input for organic agriculture, a petition must be filed with the National Organic Standards Board. The ideal petition would identify specific types of compostable plastics so that the allowance will not be limited to only one.
Lindsay Fernandez-Salvador
BioCycle August 2012, Vol. 53, No. 8, p. 45

 

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